On 28 May 2007, at 12:24, Kay Sievers wrote:
A driver for a bootup-critical device like this should just neverrelease the firmware after the first load. There is absolutely no pointin doing that.
Bogus argument: is a USB-Ethernet device which needs firmware loading boot-up critical? Not on the surface, but if the device loads root over this device, it suddenly is.
This functionality should also be written into the firmware-class (and this fact *is* acknowledged in the sparse documentation).
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