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Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Tuesday, 29 May 2007 08:55, Kay Sievers wrote: >> The shiny userspace firmware loading causes problems since it exists, >> every second box has problems with it, in all sorts of situations. If >> people are still sold to the idea of userspace firmware loading, why >> don't we keep the data in the driver, instead of immediately >> discarding it after the first upload? Not to waste a few hundred >> kilobytes? That doesn't sound like a convincing deal, after all the >> years people try to work around the issues it causes. > > Agreed. > > Rafael Rather than most drivers being told to make this step, can this be added to the firmware_class such that firmware objects are cached in RAM and subsequent calls to request_firmware() don't have to query userspace. This seems the least intrusive solution to this problem. Thanks, Michael-Luke - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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