linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm 3/3] PM: Disable _request

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Message-ID: <20070530195016.GA5198@ucw.cz>
Date:	Wed, 30 May 2007 19:50:16 +0000
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
Cc:	Michael-Luke Jones <mlj28@....ac.uk>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	pm list <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...el.suspend2.net>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm 3/3] PM: Disable _request_firmware before hibernation/suspend

Hi!

> > >> Userspace should handle the async request just fine when it comes  
> > >> back
> > >> running, regardless of the time it was submitted.
> > >
> > > Okay, so the solution is to convert the drivers to use
> > > request_firmware_nowait() instead of request_firmware() in  
> > > their .resume()
> > > routines.
> > 
> > [added Rob Landley to CC]
> > 
> > I think asynchronous loading should be made the default behaviour.  
> > However, we need to think and document how to do firmware loading.
> 
> I'd love to write up documentation on this if anybody can tell me what it 
> should say. :)

Well, chapter on firmware & suspend/hibernation should say something
about either loading the firmware during early suspend, or just
keeping firmware in ram from boot...
							Pavel
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