On 28 May 2007, at 12:24, Kay Sievers wrote:
A driver for a bootup-critical device like this should just never
release the firmware after the first load. There is absolutely no
point
in doing that.
Bogus argument: is a USB-Ethernet device which needs firmware loading
boot-up critical? Not on the surface, but if the device loads root
over this device, it suddenly is.
This functionality should also be written into the firmware-class
(and this fact *is* acknowledged in the sparse documentation).
Michael-Luke Jones
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