[alsa-devel] Can't resume from suspend because firmware is not found ?!?

[Giuliano Pochini]

On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:39:20 +0200
Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:

> At Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:38:00 +0200,
> Giuliano Pochini wrote:
> > 
> > I tested suspend/resume on a laptop because I failed to make it work on my
> > G4 (grr!!). Suspend work, resume does not. From dmesg (below) it looks like
> > the soundcard driver is asked to resume before the ATA driver, thus is
> > cannot load the firmware. Am I overlooking something ?  Suggestions ?
> 
> You can't load the firmware file in resume phase because the system
> isn't yet ready at this stage.  Either postpone it or keep the old
> firmware and reuse it.

*sigh*
Ok, I'll try to find a workaround. I don't want to keep the firmware in
memory. Is there a way to know if resume is still in progress or when it is
possible to load the firmware ?  I could -as last resort- load the firmware
in the prepare callback.


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Giuliano.dd