On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 05:59:22PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > A driver that does not rely on the firmware being built in would be > > correct in calling request_firmware_nowait() on resume, then when > > userspace is properly woken up, the firmware would be sent to the > > device, then the driver would be notified, load it, and handle things > > as part of its resume sequence from that notification. > > > > Isn't that ideally what we want to have happen? > > No. Absolutely not. > > What we ideally want to happen is for the driver to not be a stupid > piece of sh*t. Well, we all want that :) > A driver that needs firmware loading at resume time IS A BROKEN DRIVER. > > It really is that simple. Ok, fair enough, then I have no objection to this patch. It will let us catch those shitty drivers and fix them up to not do this. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
