On Thursday, 24 May 2007 22:27, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Thu, 24 May 2007, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >
> > If someone does request_firmware from resume function... that's
> > bad. Resume function should be fixed. Pcmcia? ti12xx driver?
>
> Probably pcmcia "ds" driver and CONFIG_PCMCIA_LOAD_CIS.
>
> > Well. we'd like to present hardware in working state as soon as we
> > resume (if eth0 was there before resume, it should be there after
> > resume. not 3 seconds after resume); so if someone needs to load the
> > firmware, they should just store it in the kernel memory, and load it
> > during boot or during (very early) suspend.
>
> Equally arguably, we should just have a "resume_late()" call that can be
> used to do this after everything is up and running.
>
> And quite frankly, I don't actually see any reason why firmware loading
> shouldn't work in the resume path. I really do think that this is ANOTHER
> bug that has no other reason than the fact that that f*cking freezer
> killed the system for no really good reason.
Well, if I understand request_firmware() correctly, it does something in sysfs
and waits for the user land to react, but at this point the user land can't do
anything.
Greetings,
Rafael
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