On Tuesday, 29 May 2007 14:00, Michael-Luke Jones wrote:
> Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 29 May 2007 08:55, Kay Sievers wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > Agreed.
> >
> > Rafael
>
> Rather than most drivers being told to make this step, can this be added
> to the firmware_class such that firmware objects are cached in RAM and
> subsequent calls to request_firmware() don't have to query userspace.
>
> This seems the least intrusive solution to this problem.
Agreed again. :-)
Greetings,
Rafael
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