From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753306Ab2ABUlI (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jan 2012 15:41:08 -0500 Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:53750 "EHLO out5.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752834Ab2ABUlG (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jan 2012 15:41:06 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: olo98O7Q0LH83UMri5H2PsyNwsDqWh+qH4164iOWfX3N 1325536863 Message-ID: <4F02165C.1060400@fastmail.fm> Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:41:00 +0000 From: Jack Stone User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Stern CC: Linus Torvalds , 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: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/01/12 16:54, Alan Stern wrote: > What Oliver and I have been discussing is delaying the probe call until > after resume is finished, when userspace is back up and everything is > operating normally again. It would be more awkward than the current > code, but it definitely can be done. What about the case where the firmware that needs to be loaded is on the USB device that needs the firmware. This can be resolved at boot using an initrd but at resume time we don't have that. Thanks, Jack