[alsa-devel] [PATCH 4/8] ALSA: hda - Don't release firmware when CONFIG_PM is set

[Takashi Iwai]

The new firmware code tries to re-read the formerly read firmware
files before suspend.  Thus it's wiser to keep the "patch" firmware in
the driver for avoiding this unnecessary re-reading.

Of course, this will consume a bit of memory for unused stuff, but
the patch fw is supposed to be fairly small, so it's more benefit in
the end.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
---
 sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c b/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
index 83be855..4bb52da 100644
--- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
+++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
@@ -3507,8 +3507,10 @@ static int DELAYED_INIT_MARK azx_probe_continue(struct azx *chip)
 					 chip->fw->data);
 		if (err < 0)
 			goto out_free;
+#ifndef CONFIG_PM
 		release_firmware(chip->fw); /* no longer needed */
 		chip->fw = NULL;
+#endif
 	}
 #endif
 	if ((probe_only[dev] & 1) == 0) {
-- 
1.8.0