Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers.

David Miller
2008-07-15T01:50:27Z

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:33:58 -0700 (PDT)

> The only reliable way to handle it is to load the firmware before the
> suspend happens - preferably by simply never unloading it in the first
> place.

That's what we were told was the huge benefit of moving some
of these drivers over to this request_firmware() stuff, it would
save memory.

To me, especially for the networking drivers for which I am familiar,
this transformation seems completely pointless from a technical
perspective. In fact it's a regression as-is.