Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:50:12 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from
 in-kernel, use it in more drivers.
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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:33:58 -0700 (PDT)

> The only reliable way to handle it is to load the firmware before the 
> suspend happens - preferably by simply never unloading it in the first 
> place.

That's what we were told was the huge benefit of moving some
of these drivers over to this request_firmware() stuff, it would
save memory.

To me, especially for the networking drivers for which I am familiar,
this transformation seems completely pointless from a technical
perspective.  In fact it's a regression as-is.

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