On 02/01/12 21:19, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 12:48:48PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> Why are you guys making it any more complicated than that? > > Because it's inadequate. You can't guarantee that we ever loaded > firmware. The same hardware might maintain state over warm reboots but > not over suspend. We never loaded the firmware loader driver. We never > called request_firmware(). We have no way of knowing whether the device > is an older one that needs firmware loading, or a newer one which has it > in flash. > Can we tell by the USB ids that this is a device that might need firmware and load it into memory anyway - it would use more memory but would always work as we would have the firmware. Thanks, Jack -- 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
