Return-path: Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:46737 "EHLO out5.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753080Ab2ABXZ5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jan 2012 18:25:57 -0500 Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.44]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BE8B20A79 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2012 18:25:57 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4F023D02.1030403@fastmail.fm> (sfid-20120103_002635_501952_02ADFBE0) Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:25:54 +0000 From: Jack Stone MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marek Vasut CC: Linus Torvalds , Alan Stern , Oliver Neukum , Matthew Garrett , Dave Jones , Linux Kernel , Larry Finger , Chaoming Li , "John W. Linville" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , USB list , Linux Wireless List Subject: Re: loading firmware while usermodehelper disabled. References: <201201022252.20139.marek.vasut@gmail.com> <4F022846.8080305@fastmail.fm> <201201022331.27562.marek.vasut@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201201022331.27562.marek.vasut@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 02/01/12 22:31, Marek Vasut wrote: >> I don't think there is anyway to avoid the memory requirement if we want >> to be able to resume transparently to user-space (or even resume at all >> in some setups). > > Well ... injecting firmware into kernel with some userland helper just before > suspend is no-go? Its a perfectly good idea but you still need the full memory requirement during the suspend. Thanks, Jack