Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 10:54:47 schrieb Marek Vasut: > > Am Samstag, 31. Dezember 2011, 19:39:18 schrieb Marek Vasut: > > > maybe we should implement such thing into the firmware loader itself? > > > Allow it -- for example via some node in /dev -- to force loading > > > firmware into some buffer in kernel just before suspend so it'll > > > certainly be readily available at resume time? > > > > This is difficult. We don't know at suspend time which firmware we will > > need at resume time. > > That's not actually true ... you can ask the drivers if they need to load > firmware after resume ... that can be implemented and udev can handle it. The > driver should know if the hardware it's controlling is stupid or not. Device IDs can morph due to a power loss. After resumption another driver would bind. Regards Oliver -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
