From: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: suspend/resume support for driver requires an external firmware
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 18:07:15 +0300
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Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>,
       Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>,
       "Zhu, Yi" <yi.zhu@intel.com>
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On Tuesday 28 September 2004 02:06, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Monday 27 September 2004 05:47 pm, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > On Monday 27 September 2004 21:19, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > On Monday 27 September 2004 12:19 pm, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > > > > Why not just suspend the device first, then enter the system suspend
> > > > > state; then on resume, resume the device after control has transferred
> > > > > back to userspace. That way, the driver can load the firmware from the
> > > > 
> > > > And thus cause errors in all applications wishing to use the network
> > > > until the firmware is reloaded. It is precisely what cannot be done.
> > > > The firmware must be present on suspend. The question is, how?
> > > 
> > > While non-availability might be an issue for other types of hardware I think
> > > it is ok for network cards. In many cases the interface will have to be
> > > reconfigured at resume anyway (you move from office to home and the network
> > > is completely different). Can't resume be handled by virtually removing/
> > > inserting the device so firmware will be re-loaded as it was just a normal
> > > startup?
> > 
> > Think about situation when all filesystems are NFS-mounted.
> > You absolutely are not allowed to lose your network, or else hotplug
> > (and all fs-backed stuff in general) will die horribly.
> 
> Where do you load your firmware from so that you can bring up the network
> so you can mount everything via NFS in the first place?

>From initrd. I am booting off small DOS partition which holds Linux images,
initrds, loader etc. After boot, I do not mount any local partitions.
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vda

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