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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	rjw@sisk.pl
Subject: [mm-patch]Documentation:reference notifiers.txt in freezing-of-tasks.txt
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 10:26:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200707091026.20463.oliver@neukum.org> (raw)

Hi,

freezing-of-tasks.txt mentions firmware issues without mentioning the use
of the new notifier API to overcome them. Here's an update.

	Regards
		Oliver
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
----

--- a/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt	2007-07-09 10:06:51.000000000 +0200
+++ b/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt	2007-07-09 10:24:05.000000000 +0200
@@ -155,6 +155,8 @@ Suppose, however, that the firmware file
 only through another device that hasn't been resumed yet.  In that case,
 request_firmware() will fail regardless of whether or not the freezing of tasks
 is used.  Consequently, the problem is not really related to the freezing of
-tasks, since it generally exists anyway.  [The solution to this particular
-problem is to keep the firmware in memory after it's loaded for the first time
-and upload if from memory to the device whenever necessary.]
+tasks, since it generally exists anyway.
+
+A driver must have all firmwares it may need in RAM before suspend() is called.
+If keeping them is not practical, for example due to their size, they must be
+requested early enough using the suspend notifier API described in notifiers.txt.

             reply	other threads:[~2007-07-09  8:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-09  8:26 Oliver Neukum [this message]
2007-07-09 11:56 ` [mm-patch]Documentation:reference notifiers.txt in freezing-of-tasks.txt Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-07-10  2:48 ` Nigel Cunningham

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