Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752938AbXE2MAh (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2007 08:00:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750903AbXE2MAa (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2007 08:00:30 -0400 Received: from hu-out-0506.google.com ([72.14.214.225]:46325 "EHLO hu-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750838AbXE2MA3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2007 08:00:29 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=E2jwtUa3NjTsMx/1mo2i2mcIbGDbnui2Y4shOVwl1RDaWIrsqO2g0ddH0hHGsK0Iytf8iLdjCOi+A4gAE3bal6HOB1SZaZjh+0ZeMQ5q96NaHKh4k4F4pHHzOlrZwMJC6Wk/wwR0XnVTFMQJOhOAi1KKG6IkRi3tbXp4XTLjZQU= Message-ID: <465C15D9.3070905@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 13:00:25 +0100 From: Michael-Luke Jones User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Macintosh/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" CC: Kay Sievers , Linus Torvalds , Pavel Machek , Romano Giannetti , Chris Wright , Chuck Ebbert , Linux Kernel Mailing List , stable@kernel.org, Justin Forbes , Zwane Mwaikambo , "Theodore Ts'o" , Randy Dunlap , Dave Jones , Chuck Wolber , Chris Wedgwood , Michael Krufky , akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: pcmcia resume 60 second hang. Re: [patch 00/69] -stable review References: <1179870110.16656.2.camel@localhost> <3ae72650705282355j40a0b03bt96661bc1263efc35@mail.gmail.com> <200705291400.46707.rjw@sisk.pl> In-Reply-To: <200705291400.46707.rjw@sisk.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1122 Lines: 28 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Tuesday, 29 May 2007 08:55, Kay Sievers wrote: >> The shiny userspace firmware loading causes problems since it exists, >> every second box has problems with it, in all sorts of situations. If >> people are still sold to the idea of userspace firmware loading, why >> don't we keep the data in the driver, instead of immediately >> discarding it after the first upload? Not to waste a few hundred >> kilobytes? That doesn't sound like a convincing deal, after all the >> years people try to work around the issues it causes. > > Agreed. > > Rafael Rather than most drivers being told to make this step, can this be added to the firmware_class such that firmware objects are cached in RAM and subsequent calls to request_firmware() don't have to query userspace. This seems the least intrusive solution to this problem. Thanks, Michael-Luke - 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/