Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied fromin-kernel, use it in more drivers.

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 17:44 -0700, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 17:40 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > > 
> > > I see no real point in that. If you have userspace to load modules, then
> > > you have userspace to load firmware.
> > 
> > David, the case is different: the module is loaded _across_ the 
> > suspend/resume, but the device needs to have its firmware reloaded at 
> > resume time because it lost power.
> 
> Either I put my reply in response to the wrong quotation, or you thought
> I did.
> 
> I intended the above to be a response to the "please put firmware _into_
> the .ko file" request. Not to the suspend/resume thing.
> 
> Yes, I agree that suspend/resume is a non-issue.

Besides, request_firmware() from a resume() method is broken. Has always
been and will probably always be.

Ben.

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