Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] firmware load: defer request_firmware during early boot and resume | Date | Sat, 21 Jul 2012 19:53:35 +0200 |
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On Saturday, July 21, 2012, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:33 AM, Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> wrote: > > The RFC patch is just for discussing if the idea of deferring > > request_firmware is doable for addressing the issue of > > request_firmware in resume path, which is caused by driver > > unbind/rebind during resume. > > NAK.
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> Seriously. People should load their firmware *before* the > suspend/resume cycle. And if that isn't possible, then the system > should ABSOLUTELY NOT silently say "whatever" and defer it until > later. We should have that big failure and the big noisy warning, and > drivers that need to defer need to do so themselves, so that we never > *ever* have that silent automatic defer situation.
Well, thanks. I totally agree, but didn't know how to say this. :-)
Rafael
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