netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] e100: Fix to allow systems with FW based cards to resume from STD

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Message-Id: <20091028.041404.176513002.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:14:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, david.graham@...el.com
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] e100: Fix to allow systems with FW based
 cards to resume from STD

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:59:29 -0700

> From: David Graham <david.graham@...el.com>
> 
> Devices with loadable firmware must have their firmware reloaded
> after the system resumes from sleep, but the request_firmare()
> API is not available at this point in the resume flow because
> tasks are not yet running, and the system will hang if it is
> called. Work around this issue by only calling request_firmware()
> for a device's first firmware load, and cache a copy of the pointer
> to the firmware blob for that device, so that we may reload firmware
> images even during resume.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Graham <david.graham@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>

Applied, thanks.
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