From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-usb" <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>,
Linux PM list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] firmware load: defer request_firmware during early boot and resume
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 19:53:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201207211953.35791.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFwZRvtpE2e3zNqvtobpPROqw_bOwNt+=DBzmScV0_rq=w@mail.gmail.com>
On Saturday, July 21, 2012, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:33 AM, Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The RFC patch is just for discussing if the idea of deferring
> > request_firmware is doable for addressing the issue of
> > request_firmware in resume path, which is caused by driver
> > unbind/rebind during resume.
>
> NAK.
[...]
> Seriously. People should load their firmware *before* the
> suspend/resume cycle. And if that isn't possible, then the system
> should ABSOLUTELY NOT silently say "whatever" and defer it until
> later. We should have that big failure and the big noisy warning, and
> drivers that need to defer need to do so themselves, so that we never
> *ever* have that silent automatic defer situation.
Well, thanks. I totally agree, but didn't know how to say this. :-)
Rafael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-21 17:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-20 12:33 Ming Lei
2012-07-20 12:52 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-20 12:57 ` Ming Lei
2012-07-20 13:03 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-20 13:09 ` Ming Lei
2012-07-20 13:13 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-20 13:54 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-07-20 15:53 ` Ming Lei
2012-07-21 4:13 ` Ming Lei
2012-07-21 9:56 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-07-21 13:25 ` Ming Lei
2012-07-21 17:35 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-07-21 17:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-21 17:53 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2012-07-21 19:55 ` Ming Lei
2012-07-21 20:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-21 20:46 ` david
2012-07-21 23:24 ` Ming Lei
2012-07-22 12:58 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-22 19:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-23 8:12 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-21 21:01 ` Francois Romieu
2012-07-21 17:49 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-07-21 20:09 ` Ming Lei
2012-07-21 21:33 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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