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Message-Id: <200807150823.35628.oliver@neukum.org> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:23:34 +0200 From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org> To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> Cc: david@...g.hm, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, rene.herman@...access.nl, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. Am Dienstag 15 Juli 2008 08:03:15 schrieb David Woodhouse: > Mostly it follows the documented recommendation, since most of the > touched drivers are USB drivers and you end up re-enumerating and > starting from scratch on resume anyway. And the remainder are so old > that they don't have suspend/resume support anyway. Remember, we're only > really updating the older drivers; newer drivers tend to use > request_firmware() already, and have done for years. As for USB that was before persistance. It now allows you to even support a loss of power without reprobing, provided a) the devices does not change IDs b) you have firmware around when reset_resume() is called Regards Oliver -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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