Re: [PATCH 1/3] PM: Introduce new top level suspend and hibernation callbacks (rev. 8)

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Am Montag, 14. April 2008 09:23:36 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
> 
> On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 08:43 +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> > If you want to request firmware in a PM callback, which makes a
> > certain
> > sense, as we should move to a comprehensive API, if we change the API
> > at all, we need a model with 3 callbacks.
> 
> No. At this pace, we'll find reasons to have 98213674 callbacks and will
> still not be happy.
> 
> Prepare() should be the right place to call request_firmware() and if
> that is a problem because of bugs in some USB things, then those bugs
> should be fixed.

This isn't a bug. USB simply needs to be able to register (and deregister)
children to be fully operative. You cannot expect a subsystem to work
while some core services are not available.

	Regards
		Oliver


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