Bug 159234

Summary:	udev-103 won't load speedtouch driver firmware
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Milosz Kosobucki <mikomek>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Milosz Kosobucki 2006-12-27 11:43:11 UTC

Latest versions of udev have problems with in-kernel speedtouch driver. The driver is not using new firmware loading api used by new udev versions and tries to load it independetly. Udev and the driver are loading this firmware at the same time causing race-condition. The driver succeeds to load about once for 15 tries. I don't know exactly in which version the firmware loading api was introduced but I've tried with udev-103 and the driver was not working, then reverted to udev-094 and the driver works flawlessly.

The problem was mentioned on gentoo forums:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-327025-start-180.html

There is also some information here:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/usbatm/2006-July/000858.html

So maybe the speedtouch-usb should check which version of firmware is installed and require some of the older ones.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-12-27 11:45:22 UTC

Unmerge hotplug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 147006 ***