Hi, I'm asking to see if there is any chance of consensus on having a driver rely on (select) FW_CACHE. Nobody currently does. Currently FW_CACHE is an optional feature (that distros may or may not configure off), where we will cache loaded firmwares to avoid problems over suspend/resume (and speed up resume). I've just discovered a problem in nouveau's suspend code when the FW_CACHE is turned off, it tries to load a few in it's suspend path for certain scenarios. Enabling FW_CACHE fixes this, but I'm unsure if that is considered properly fixing it or should FW_CACHE just be considered an optimisation. Do I a) select FW_CACHE in nouveau Kconfig b) fix nouveau to avoid loading the fw at suspend time (effectively caching it itself?) Dave.
