Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262111AbTEPWAd (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2003 18:00:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262119AbTEPWAd (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2003 18:00:33 -0400 Received: from Mail1.KONTENT.De ([81.88.34.36]:34268 "EHLO Mail1.KONTENT.De") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262111AbTEPWAc (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2003 18:00:32 -0400 From: Oliver Neukum To: Alan Cox Subject: Re: request_firmware() hotplug interface, third round. Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 00:13:49 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 Cc: ranty@debian.org, LKML , Simon Kelley , "Downing, Thomas" , Greg KH , jt@hpl.hp.com, Pavel Roskin References: <20030515200324.GB12949@ranty.ddts.net> <200305161007.31335.oliver@neukum.org> <1053101342.5589.5.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1053101342.5589.5.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305170013.49808.oliver@neukum.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 950 Lines: 22 Am Freitag, 16. Mai 2003 18:09 schrieb Alan Cox: > On Gwe, 2003-05-16 at 09:07, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > So, if I understand you correctly, RAM is only saved if a device > > is hotpluggable and needs firmware only upon intial connection. > > Which, if you do suspend to disk correctly, is no device. > > Thats just because the interface is a little warped not the theory. > On a resume you need to reload firmware and you already handle > rediscovery on USB bus for example because the devices can change Right. But the order of resumption is fixed by hardware needs. So during resumption you cannot use block devices and therefore not start a hotplug script. Or did I miss something? Regards Oliver - 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/