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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH -mm 3/3] PM: Disable _request_firmware before hibernation/suspend
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On Monday, 28 May 2007 17:55, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Sun, 27 May 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> >
> > Use a hibernation and suspend notifier to disable the firmware requesting
> > mechanism before a hibernation/suspend and enable it after the operation.
>
> You're using the PM_PRE_FREEZE and PM_POST_THAW notifiers for both this
> and the userspace helper change. Is it your intention that drivers
> should continue to request these services but encounter an error if the
> request occurs at the wrong time? Or do you expect drivers to use the
> notifier chains to know when they shouldn't make any requests?

In fact, I'd like drivers to use notifiers to actually load the firmware into
memory before hibernation/suspend. Namely, if there's PM_PRE_FREEZE, the
driver calls request_firmware() from within the notifier and saves the firmware
in memory for future use, if need be. Later, when PM_POST_THAW comes, the
memory holding the firmware is released.

Unfortunately there are drivers that call request_firmware() directly from
.resume() which blocks until timeout expires and fails anyway. I just wanted
this to fail immediately, without waiting.

> In the second case you may have a problem, because there's no
> specification about the order in which the notifiers are sent. The
> service may get disabled before the driver learns it isn't available,
> or the driver may think the service is once again available before it
> gets enabled.

Yes.

Greetings,
Rafael
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