On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 01:02:08PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> > Subject: PM: Print a warning if firmware is requested when tasks are frozen > > Some drivers erroneously use request_firmware() from their ->resume() > (or ->thaw(), or ->restore()) callbacks, which is not going to work > unless the firmware has been built in. This causes system resume to > stall until the firmware-loading timeout expires, which makes users > think that the resume has failed and reboot their machines > unnecessarily. For this reason, make _request_firmware() print a > warning and return immediately with error code if it has been called > when tasks are frozen and it's impossible to start any new usermode > helpers. > > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> I'm guessing you will take this through your tree? If so, that's great: Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
