From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-8.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FE22C432BE for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2021 17:53:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FE4A61101 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2021 17:53:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231960AbhHRRxv (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Aug 2021 13:53:51 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:43560 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229528AbhHRRxr (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Aug 2021 13:53:47 -0400 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E0707610FE; Wed, 18 Aug 2021 17:53:11 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1629309192; bh=1PdxaWp06Zf1Xx0MXjBNoAEoceqXLG1oWGBvQ2KKlOc=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=SLd31OBjz0uHbH9KlXK8JfjhPgOz+fH3TPjxJpsFbRnXfcn7OiQ87tgPBI27jOhi0 +WrXL+xU+PO//dKLvHCTGnBxVmCl1SWh8Efs26bI9aOpHZVpczVpdmF8k5WrLp+QXM 7XQgbPEjfwMVwWrZvP12m0WXRKYK7GSiCwvSnCkf4g0iyJ13REzyfK78DM/VZsonV2 0LTs45/dt6pPeFqxrcrXFRqJpL6JLm3mlQyNkpAB6/wIo84cnCu8/KxryEo8jo4vjG o/kep2w6uY4h+do1hGEi8mMMMziO89FDzVvcS8nBgagD63cSjdhF8bNPWepurPyrok nOmYyfgtEZ4Cg== Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 18:52:48 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Pierre-Louis Bossart , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, "Rafael J . Wysocki" , tiwai@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, liam.r.girdwood@linux.intel.com, vkoul@kernel.org, Geert Uytterhoeven , Jason Gunthorpe , Dan Williams , Andy Shevchenko , Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] driver core: export driver_deferred_probe_trigger() Message-ID: <20210818175248.GH4177@sirena.org.uk> References: <20210817190057.255264-1-pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com> <20210817190057.255264-2-pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com> <20210818115736.GA4177@sirena.org.uk> <20210818134814.GF4177@sirena.org.uk> <14235b8d-d375-6e2d-cae9-33adf9c48120@linux.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="CNfT9TXqV7nd4cfk" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Cookie: She sells cshs by the cshore. User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --CNfT9TXqV7nd4cfk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 06:49:51PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 10:53:07AM -0500, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote: > > It's been that way for a very long time (2015?) for HDAudio support, see > > sound/pci/hda/hda_bind.c. It's my understanding that it was a conscious > > design decision to use vendor-specific modules, if available, and > > fallback to generic modules if the first pass failed. > If it has been this way for so long, what has caused the sudden change > to need to export this and call this function? The usage predates the hardware that requires firmware downloads - that's very new. --CNfT9TXqV7nd4cfk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAABCgAdFiEEreZoqmdXGLWf4p/qJNaLcl1Uh9AFAmEdSPAACgkQJNaLcl1U h9DBxgf/amTh9hfO6aFUgwqDOv0qsAVXUkdiweHKmeTccre1+YQ2bhp2YsUM/gB4 hUEYHxhRPUJcTiEN9dxicfru+l/6Rm0tMpdUok8KtpVa+x7NK87yy14ce02vpjiS G9G3k6IHU/R9xP9sXYLFTkY1+Odq1JJYNok+vgdsl39D1pXXOEDpOa0ynOOmAR0+ /Hs6Rsr+D4SwEjpBHPPeW/xW4g+MnXNzoIh/WP+K+goZAvRXfBIFo60ZjzPf7aHv Taq3g9xwOdFXHHHFmTyrZ+4wSNxsEQokzq0O6qKLN79ITljb0hjiy43MN20yeDsG h6ygHH2+gfeAdDG2rcHpinneo56wLg== =69mB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --CNfT9TXqV7nd4cfk--