Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

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On Monday, 9 July 2007 11:14, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 08:52 +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, 8. Juli 2007 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
> > > Another issue that's been a problem forever with suspend is the
> > > synchronous request_firmware interface. Lots of drivers do that in
> > > resume() which will generally not work.
> > 
> > Unfortunately yes they do. We now have the notifier chains, which
> > can be used. Firmware, especially if it is large, must be requested
> > while the system is still fully functional and paging will work.
> > 
> > Asynchronocity will not help much because the devices must work
> > after resumingand delaying that will not help with respect to needing
> > devices to get at the firmware.
> 
> True, pre-loading is the best approach.

Agreed.

Greetings,
Rafael


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