From: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
Chaoming Li <chaoming_li@realsil.com.cn>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>,
"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@suse.de>,
USB list <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Wireless List <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: loading firmware while usermodehelper disabled.
Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 17:32:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201201011732.23069.marek.vasut@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201201011328.41311.oliver@neukum.org>
> Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 10:54:47 schrieb Marek Vasut:
> > > Am Samstag, 31. Dezember 2011, 19:39:18 schrieb Marek Vasut:
> > > > maybe we should implement such thing into the firmware loader itself?
> > > > Allow it -- for example via some node in /dev -- to force loading
> > > > firmware into some buffer in kernel just before suspend so it'll
> > > > certainly be readily available at resume time?
> > >
> > > This is difficult. We don't know at suspend time which firmware we will
> > > need at resume time.
> >
> > That's not actually true ... you can ask the drivers if they need to load
> > firmware after resume ... that can be implemented and udev can handle it.
> > The driver should know if the hardware it's controlling is stupid or
> > not.
>
> Device IDs can morph due to a power loss. After resumption another driver
> would bind.
What do you mean? I don't think I quite follow.
M
>
> Regards
> Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-01 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-30 23:54 loading firmware while usermodehelper disabled Dave Jones
2011-12-31 0:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-12-31 0:40 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-12-31 15:33 ` Alan Stern
2011-12-31 15:59 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-01-01 2:21 ` Alan Stern
2012-01-01 12:22 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-01-01 16:17 ` Alan Stern
2012-01-01 16:25 ` Michael Büsch
2012-01-01 20:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-01 21:27 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-01-01 21:39 ` Michael Büsch
2012-01-02 3:33 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-01-02 7:56 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-01-02 4:17 ` Marek Vasut
2012-01-02 5:35 ` Gábor Stefanik
2012-01-02 8:38 ` Marek Vasut
2012-01-02 16:54 ` Alan Stern
2012-01-02 20:41 ` Jack Stone
2012-01-02 20:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-02 20:55 ` Jack Stone
2012-01-02 21:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-02 21:09 ` Jack Stone
2012-01-02 21:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-02 21:31 ` Jack Stone
2012-01-02 21:52 ` Marek Vasut
2012-01-02 21:57 ` Jack Stone
2012-01-02 22:31 ` Marek Vasut
2012-01-02 23:25 ` Jack Stone
2012-01-03 0:31 ` Marek Vasut
2012-01-03 0:44 ` Jack Stone
2012-01-03 0:58 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-03 7:17 ` Marek Vasut
2012-01-03 7:41 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-01-03 0:35 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-03 0:50 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-02 21:19 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-01-02 21:26 ` Jack Stone
2012-01-03 0:42 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-03 11:57 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-01-03 12:19 ` Jack Stone
2012-01-03 13:20 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-03 13:30 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-01-03 13:36 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-02 21:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-02 21:50 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-01-02 22:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-02 22:12 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-01-02 22:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-02 22:29 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-01-02 22:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-02 23:00 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-01-02 23:31 ` Jack Stone
2012-01-03 0:13 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-01-03 0:20 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-03 0:37 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-01-03 0:22 ` Jack Stone
2012-01-03 0:31 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-03 0:41 ` Jack Stone
2012-01-03 0:38 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-01-03 0:47 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-03 0:18 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-03 8:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-03 2:45 ` Alan Stern
2012-01-03 3:25 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-01-03 5:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-03 11:50 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-01-03 15:16 ` Alan Stern
2012-01-03 12:24 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-01-03 16:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-03 15:09 ` Alan Stern
2012-01-03 9:16 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2012-01-03 9:16 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2012-01-03 9:24 ` david
2012-01-03 13:43 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-03 14:12 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2012-01-03 0:00 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-02 23:50 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-02 23:53 ` Alan Cox
2011-12-31 16:27 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-12-31 14:20 ` Martin Schleier
2011-12-31 18:39 ` Marek Vasut
2012-01-01 9:48 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-01-01 9:54 ` Marek Vasut
2012-01-01 12:28 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-01-01 16:32 ` Marek Vasut [this message]
2012-01-01 17:06 ` Marek Vasut
2012-01-01 20:39 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-01 20:50 ` Michael Büsch
2012-01-02 3:24 ` Marek Vasut
2012-01-02 3:29 ` Marek Vasut
2012-01-01 3:49 ` Larry Finger
2012-01-01 22:45 ` Jack Stone
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-12-31 15:01 drahemmaps
2011-12-31 19:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-12-31 20:15 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-12-31 20:26 ` Linus Torvalds
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