From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Michael-Luke Jones <mike.luke.jones@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: pcmcia resume 60 second hang. Re: [patch 00/69] -stable review
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 14:16:40 +0200
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On Tuesday, 29 May 2007 14:00, Michael-Luke Jones wrote:
> 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.

Agreed again. :-)

Greetings,
Rafael
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