Re: [PATCH 1/3] firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image

From: Lennart Sorensen
Date: Fri May 23 2008 - 12:38:50 EST


On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 06:21:01PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Looks good.
> But do we need the firmware after init?
> In other owrds could it be inside a discard after init block?

What is you can hotplug the device and hence need to initialize the same
device type multiple times? Wouldn't keeping the firmware around be
useful then? How about on suspend/resume, do you need to reload
firmware in those cases?

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Len Sorensen
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