Re: Exposing ROM's though sysfs

[Alan Cox]

On Gwe, 2004-07-30 at 19:12, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> I don't see a good way of doing this, unfortunately.  It'd probably be
> enough to call ->suspend on the driver while you read the contents of
> the ROM, but that's pretty ugly.

Is the BIOS guaranteed readable in D3 if we call suspend ?

Since we only need the BIOS in some special cases we could just reject
the request if the device is in use. If it has a driver - ask the
driver, if it doesn't then ask sysfs.
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