Re: suspend/resume support for driver requires an external firmware

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Mon Sep 27 2004 - 02:50:48 EST


Am Montag, 27. September 2004 05:43 schrieb Zhu, Yi:
> Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 24. September 2004 08:16 schrieb Zhu, Yi:
> >> Choice 3? or I missed something here?
> >
> > If the user requests suspension, why can't he transfer the
> > firmware before he does so? Thus the firmware would be in ram
> > or part of the image read back from disk.
>
> Do you suggest before user echo 4 > /proc/acpi/sleep, [s]he must
> do something like cat /path/of/firmware > /proc/net/ipw2100/firmware?

Yes.

Regards
Oliver
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