Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm 3/3] PM: Disable _request_firmware before hibernation/suspend

Michael-Luke Jones
2007-05-28T11:38:23Z

On 28 May 2007, at 12:24, Kay Sievers wrote:

> A driver for a bootup-critical device like this should just never
> release the firmware after the first load. There is absolutely no
> point
> in 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).

Michael-Luke Jones