linux-kernel - Re: microcode loading got really slow.

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Date:	Thu, 23 May 2013 18:27:57 +0800
From:	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
To:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86@...nel.org,
	fenghua.yu@...el.com
Subject: Re: microcode loading got really slow.

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de> wrote:
>
> Thinking on this again, if the user-space continues to be broken in
> that point, we should provide request_firmware() variant without udev,
> e.g. request_firmware_direct(), and use it in known places like this?

As anish said, it has been already there, wrt. this problem, I think we
need to know why the direct loading is failed.


Thanks,
-- 
Ming Lei
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