Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754191AbXE1Lie (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 May 2007 07:38:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750712AbXE1Li0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 May 2007 07:38:26 -0400 Received: from ppsw-4.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.134]:57628 "EHLO ppsw-4.csi.cam.ac.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750710AbXE1Li0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 May 2007 07:38:26 -0400 X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ In-Reply-To: <1180351493.4242.31.camel@lov.localdomain> References: <200705272229.21263.rjw@sisk.pl> <20070527220412.GC22687@srcf.ucam.org> <1180304166.3131.66.camel@lov.localdomain> <200705280943.54312.rjw@sisk.pl> <20070528111554.GF18807@elf.ucw.cz> <1180351493.4242.31.camel@lov.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <6BFA837E-47D4-487F-9D71-FA83D6D865E5@cam.ac.uk> Cc: Pavel Machek , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Matthew Garrett , pm list , LKML , Nigel Cunningham , Alan Stern Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Michael-Luke Jones Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm 3/3] PM: Disable _request_firmware before hibernation/suspend Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 12:38:23 +0100 To: Kay Sievers X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 781 Lines: 20 On 28 May 2007, at 12:24, Kay Sievers wrote: > A driver for a bootup-critical device like this should just never > release the firmware after the first load. There is absolutely no > point > in doing that. Bogus argument: is a USB-Ethernet device which needs firmware loading boot-up critical? Not on the surface, but if the device loads root over this device, it suddenly is. This functionality should also be written into the firmware-class (and this fact *is* acknowledged in the sparse documentation). Michael-Luke Jones - 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/