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 18:52:59 +0200
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Am Dienstag 15 Juli 2008 16:40:54 schrieb David Woodhouse:
> On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 08:23 +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > 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
> 
> c) the driver in question actually _has_ a reset_resume() method
> 
> The old, unloved drivers which I've touched as part of this patch set
> did not. In general the newer, loved drivers use request_firmware()
> already.
> 

Generally we love all drivers and welcome new additions.
Which did you touch? I lost track.

	Regards
		Oliver

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