linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Firmware loader driver for USB Apple iSight camera

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Message-Id: <200805202359.06873.oliver@neukum.org>
Date:	Tue, 20 May 2008 23:59:05 +0200
From:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
Cc:	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	gregkh@...e.de, bersace03@...oste.net, johannes@...solutions.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Firmware loader driver for USB Apple iSight camera

Am Dienstag 20 Mai 2008 21:06:28 schrieb Matthew Garrett:
> I think this is a cleaner solution than adding support for the firmware 
> loading directly to the uvcvideo driver, and doing it as a driver rather 
> than a set of userspace callouts simplifies the suspend/resume case. The

How does that simplify suspend/resume?
If the device looses its firmware due to suspend you must implement
this support in uvc, or a user space driver will be as good as this solution.

	Regards
		Oliver

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