Messages in this thread |  | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Tue, 4 Oct 2016 18:58:06 -0700 | Subject | Re: [RFC] fs: add userspace critical mounts event support |
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On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 6:48 PM, Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> wrote: > > I definitely don't think it > should be a system-wide "mount event"; it should be a per-device "go > direct-load your firmware" poke from userspace.
I don't disagree with that kind of interface. We already have things like "rescan" for PCI bus devices to force a bus rescan. Iit's a simple device attribute. Having a similar thing to trigger firmware reload for a driver sounds entirely sane.
Linus
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