Re: loading firmware while usermodehelper disabled.

Oliver Neukum
2012-01-01T09:46:42Z

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. We could keep a record of firmware we needed
to get to the state we are, but this is a very complex scheme.

Regards
Oliver