Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:50:12 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. | From | David Miller <> |
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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.
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