Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 21 Jul 2012 23:01:06 +0200 | From | Francois Romieu <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] firmware load: defer request_firmware during early boot and resume |
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Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> : > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 1:31 AM, Linus Torvalds > <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 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. > > Suppose it is not good for resume case, I think it still makes sense > for early boot > situation, at least the patch will support to request firmware inside > init call, and > allow drivers to be built in kernel in case of requesting firmware from probe().
Could there be a simple, static and inefficient way to link firmware and code together ?
-- Ueimor
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