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

Oliver Neukum
2008-07-15T06:23:09Z

Am Dienstag 15 Juli 2008 08:03:15 schrieb David Woodhouse:
> Mostly it follows the documented recommendation, since most of the
> touched drivers are USB drivers and you end up re-enumerating and
> starting from scratch on resume anyway. And the remainder are so old
> that they don't have suspend/resume support anyway. Remember, we're only
> really updating the older drivers; newer drivers tend to use
> request_firmware() already, and have done for years.

As for USB that was before persistance. It now allows you to even
support a loss of power without reprobing, provided

a) the devices does not change IDs
b) you have firmware around when reset_resume() is called

Regards
Oliver