On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 09:37 +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > 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. No, and that's why the subsystem in question needs to nicely defer the operations that it cannot do immediately to until resume. Nothing new here. In the case of USB, there are plenty of ways it could be done, from blocking in whatever ioctl is causing trouble, to putting to-be-added objects in a list that gets processed later... Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
