linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] firmware load: defer request_firmware during early boot and resume

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Date:	Fri, 20 Jul 2012 20:57:05 +0800
From:	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-usb <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Subject: Re: [RFC] firmware load: defer request_firmware during early boot and resume

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> wrote:

> This new SYSTEM_SUSPEND state is declared above and only assigned here
> to system_state without being tested anywhere. AFAICT, the only test
> you're doing is system_state != SYSTEM_RUNNING and that works without
> defining a new SYSTEM_SUSPEND state.
>
> So are you sure you really need it?

If the approach is workable, I will rename SYSTEM_SUSPEND_DISK as
SYSTEM_SUSPEND since SYSTEM_SUSPEND_DISK is not used now.


Thanks,
-- 
Ming Lei
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