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From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aoliva@redhat.com,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com>,
	kay.sievers@vrfy.org, Haroldo Gamal <gamal@alternex.com.br>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 18:53:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4836F68D.4090603@keyaccess.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080523164447.GB31545@uranus.ravnborg.org>

On 23-05-08 18:44, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:38:41PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 06:21:01PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>>> Looks good.
>>> But do we need the firmware after init?
>>> In other owrds could it be inside a discard after init block?
>> What is you can hotplug the device and hence need to initialize the same
>> device type multiple times?  Wouldn't keeping the firmware around be
>> useful then?  How about on suspend/resume, do you need to reload
>> firmware in those cases?
> 
> There are cases where we need it after init.
> But if there are cases where we do not need it after init maybe
> we should be able to save some memory there?
> 
> Let us get it working as is - then we can add such features later.

If embedded is the main consumer I would consider this a fairly vital 
feature though.

Rene.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-23 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-23 13:44 [PATCH 1/3] firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 2/3] firmware: Add CONFIG_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE option David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 13:50   ` [PATCH 2/3] firmware: convert korg1212 driver to use firmware loader exclusively David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 14:56     ` Takashi Iwai
2008-05-23 14:59       ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 16:41   ` [PATCH 2/3] firmware: Add CONFIG_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE option Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-23 17:13     ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 18:07     ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 18:11       ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-24 14:46     ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-24 15:22       ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-24 15:25         ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-24 15:34           ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-24 18:18             ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-24 19:23               ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-24 19:31                 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25  9:30               ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25  9:49                 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 11:54                   ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 12:14                     ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 13:16                       ` Alan Cox
2008-05-25 13:46                         ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 18:07                           ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 11:49                 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 11:59                   ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 13:12                     ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 13:40                       ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 18:12                         ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 18:18                           ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 18:28                             ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-26  8:57                           ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 12:05                   ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 13:19                     ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 13:45                       ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 18:15                         ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 18:27                           ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 18:34                             ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 14:13                       ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 14:18                         ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 14:22                           ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 18:23                         ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 18:39                           ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 18:46                             ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 18:53                               ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 19:03                                 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 19:21                                   ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-26  8:52                               ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 17:17                   ` Alexandre Oliva
2008-05-25 18:49                     ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 19:53                       ` Alan Cox
2008-05-26  3:30                       ` Alexandre Oliva
2008-05-25 18:49                     ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 19:01                       ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 19:09                         ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-26  3:13                       ` Alexandre Oliva
2008-05-26 12:53                         ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-26 13:08                           ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-26 17:09                           ` Alexandre Oliva
2008-05-26 17:11                             ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-23 14:53 ` [PATCH 1/3] firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image Takashi Iwai
2008-05-23 14:58   ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 15:19     ` Takashi Iwai
2008-05-23 15:25       ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 15:33     ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 17:21       ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 19:14       ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 19:42         ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 20:31           ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 21:04             ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 23:28             ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 14:56 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 15:11   ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 15:00 ` Clemens Ladisch
2008-05-23 15:20   ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 15:32   ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 16:21 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-23 16:37   ` David Dillow
2008-05-23 16:38   ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-05-23 16:44     ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-23 16:53       ` Rene Herman [this message]
2008-05-23 17:06         ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 17:49   ` David Woodhouse

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