8 Oct
2012
8 Oct
'12
10:07 a.m.
At Mon, 8 Oct 2012 09:01:00 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 09:49:57AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
Mark Brown wrote:
More generally, why is this driver different to other Linux drivers which don't normally cache the firmware?
They usually do, if it's needed in the normal resume path.
It's not universally agreed that this is a wonderful idea, though...
Yeah, the situation around the firmware loader (still) sucks. It's getting better slowly for now, but a few big steps are still needed, e.g. for resolving the call of request_firmware() in the module (or built-in) init code.
Takashi