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From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
To: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-usb <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: Re: [RFC] firmware load: defer request_firmware during early boot and resume
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:54:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4071247.4LoKycnIHi@linux-lqwf.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACVXFVNWOcrR9tYhU1wVUSJ_DJ8x+SCk993Sn9dYDe2kzJBDuQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Friday 20 July 2012 20:33:32 Ming Lei wrote:
> The RFC patch is just for discussing if the idea of deferring
> request_firmware is doable for addressing the issue of
> request_firmware in resume path, which is caused by driver
> unbind/rebind during resume.
> 
> At least usb bus is involved in such things, one driver may be
> unbound and rebound in resume path at several situations, and
> request_firmware is often called inside probe().
> 
> Also the idea should be helpful for other hotplug buses too,
> at least there was the similar problem report on pcmcia bus.

The approach seems to me to be less comprehensive than
it ought to be. If you defer, why not the whole probe()?
Deferring only the upoad of the firmware complicates
error handling.

	Regards
		Oliver


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-20 13:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-20 12:33 [RFC] firmware load: defer request_firmware during early boot and resume Ming Lei
2012-07-20 12:52 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-20 12:57   ` Ming Lei
2012-07-20 13:03     ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-20 13:09       ` Ming Lei
2012-07-20 13:13         ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-20 13:54 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2012-07-20 15:53   ` Ming Lei
2012-07-21  4:13 ` Ming Lei
2012-07-21  9:56   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-07-21 13:25     ` Ming Lei
2012-07-21 17:35       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-07-21 17:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-21 17:53   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-07-21 19:55   ` Ming Lei
2012-07-21 20:38     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-21 20:46       ` david
2012-07-21 23:24       ` Ming Lei
2012-07-22 12:58       ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-22 19:46         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-23  8:12           ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-21 21:01     ` Francois Romieu
2012-07-21 17:49 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-07-21 20:09   ` Ming Lei
2012-07-21 21:33     ` Rafael J. Wysocki

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