On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 08:52 +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Sonntag, 8. Juli 2007 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt: > > Another issue that's been a problem forever with suspend is the > > synchronous request_firmware interface. Lots of drivers do that in > > resume() which will generally not work. > > Unfortunately yes they do. We now have the notifier chains, which > can be used. Firmware, especially if it is large, must be requested > while the system is still fully functional and paging will work. > > Asynchronocity will not help much because the devices must work > after resumingand delaying that will not help with respect to needing > devices to get at the firmware.
True, pre-loading is the best approach. Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
