netdev - Re: Bug#609538: r8169: long delay during resume

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Message-ID: <20110120135534.GA24545@rocket.almost.secure.la>
Date:	Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:55:34 +0100
From:	Jarek Kamiński <jarek@...o.eu.org>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>, 609538@...s.debian.org,
	Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@...il.com>
Cc:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Hayes Wang <hayeswang@...ltek.com>
Subject: Re: Bug#609538: r8169: long delay during resume

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 03:20:03AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 10:04 +0700, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
>> I see that Francois' patch is present in 2.6.38-rc1; is there a way to
>> avoid this delay, or is this likely in request_firmware?

> It's a known problem with calls to request_firmware() when userland is
> not running (early initialisation or resume from sleep).  It may be
> fixable.

It was partially fixed in commit
f1e02ed109df5f99abf942b8ccc99960cb09dd38 in linux-2.6.git (r8169: keep
firmware in memory.). Sorry for not reporting it here, I clicked "reply"
instead of "group reply" late in the night.

If this commit could be included in Debian kernel, the bug could be
closed.

J.
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