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Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 10:48:18 +0100
From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
To: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@...il.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
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Subject: Re: loading firmware while usermodehelper disabled.
Am Samstag, 31. Dezember 2011, 19:39:18 schrieb Marek Vasut:
> maybe we should implement such thing into the firmware loader itself? Allow it
> -- for example via some node in /dev -- to force loading firmware into some
> buffer in kernel just before suspend so it'll certainly be readily available at
> resume time?
This is difficult. We don't know at suspend time which firmware we will
need at resume time. We could keep a record of firmware we needed
to get to the state we are, but this is a very complex scheme.
Regards
Oliver
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