> > If the device losses the firmware upon suspend, the driver will have to
> > reinitialize it as if it just got plugged, which somehow makes all
> > devices hotplugable.
>
> So all firmware has to be permanently in RAM anyway?
Of course not you can just go back out to user space and ask for it
> > - In a diskless client, it is the network card
Already insoluble because of routing daemons.
> No, still no good. It means that you get a memory leak if you unload
> a driver before firmware is provided. You need the ability to explicitely
> cancel a request for firmware.
Only if you program it wrongly. Its not exactly hard.
As to an interface. The simplest is probably
request_firmware()
and
request_firmware_nowait(......, workqueuehandler)
The issues brought up about it failing appear bogus too, if the hotplug
run returns a non zero exit code you know about this already.
Alan
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