From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Organization: NOvell
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied =?utf-8?q?from=09in-kernel?=, use it in more drivers.
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:23:34 +0200
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Am Dienstag 15 Juli 2008 08:03:15 schrieb David Woodhouse:
> Mostly it follows the documented recommendation, since most of the
> touched drivers are USB drivers and you end up re-enumerating and
> starting from scratch on resume anyway. And the remainder are so old
> that they don't have suspend/resume support anyway. Remember, we're only
> really updating the older drivers; newer drivers tend to use
> request_firmware() already, and have done for years.

As for USB that was before persistance. It now allows you to even
support a loss of power without reprobing, provided

a) the devices does not change IDs
b) you have firmware around when reset_resume() is called

	Regards
		Oliver

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