Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:40:54 -0700 |
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On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 08:23 +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > 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
c) the driver in question actually _has_ a reset_resume() method
The old, unloved drivers which I've touched as part of this patch set did not. In general the newer, loved drivers use request_firmware() already.
-- dwmw2
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