On Tuesday, 29 May 2007 08:55, Kay Sievers wrote: > On 5/25/07, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 25 May 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > > > 2) we need to preload firmware during _suspend_. I AM TELLING THAT TO > > > PEOPLE FOR FIVE YEARS NOW. > > > > And people aren't listening. Have you thought about _why_? > > > > The thing is, it should just work. Even without pre-loading. > > > > > Imageine we killed freezer. Also imagine Romano has IDE card his > > > PCMCIA slot. Kaboom, we solved nothing. > > > > Don't be silly. We solved it. The firmware has to be loadable from > > somewhere else, since otherwise his IDE card wouldn't have been accessible > > in the first place! > > The shiny userspace firmware loading causes problems since it exists, > every second box has problems with it, in all sorts of situations. If > people are still sold to the idea of userspace firmware loading, why > don't we keep the data in the driver, instead of immediately > discarding it after the first upload? Not to waste a few hundred > kilobytes? That doesn't sound like a convincing deal, after all the > years people try to work around the issues it causes.
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