From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753449AbYEWQit (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2008 12:38:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750931AbYEWQim (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2008 12:38:42 -0400 Received: from caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.17]:53819 "EHLO caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750696AbYEWQim (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2008 12:38:42 -0400 Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 12:38:41 -0400 To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: David Woodhouse , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aoliva@redhat.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Abhay Salunke , kay.sievers@vrfy.org, Haroldo Gamal , Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image Message-ID: <20080523163841.GC27128@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <1211550282.28967.8.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080523162101.GA31107@uranus.ravnborg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080523162101.GA31107@uranus.ravnborg.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 06:21:01PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > Looks good. > But do we need the firmware after init? > In other owrds could it be inside a discard after init block? What is you can hotplug the device and hence need to initialize the same device type multiple times? Wouldn't keeping the firmware around be useful then? How about on suspend/resume, do you need to reload firmware in those cases? -- Len Sorensen