From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756974AbYEWQoT (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2008 12:44:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751117AbYEWQoJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2008 12:44:09 -0400 Received: from pasmtpa.tele.dk ([80.160.77.114]:53378 "EHLO pasmtpA.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750875AbYEWQoI (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2008 12:44:08 -0400 Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 18:44:47 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Lennart Sorensen 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: <20080523164447.GB31545@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <1211550282.28967.8.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080523162101.GA31107@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20080523163841.GC27128@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080523163841.GC27128@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:38:41PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > 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? There are cases where we need it after init. But if there are cases where we do not need it after init maybe we should be able to save some memory there? Let us get it working as is - then we can add such features later. Sam