On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 20:39:45 +0000 Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When you suspend the power gets killed so the device loses its firmware > and goes back to being a firmware requesting thing on resume. > > Worse still - you don't easily know if the device is in fact new and was > added while suspended, or was always there. > > So for those devices you do need to load the firmware into them > automatically after the resume to work out what they are and get the MAC > to see if its the same wireless card or not. Well, that does not prevent you from caching the firmware once you got it from userspace and keep it until module unload (or probably device close), so that it is already available on resume. -- Greetings, Michael. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
