Re: Suspend/resume - slow resume

[Francois Romieu]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> :
[lots of silly bugs]

Ok. it should be fixed for wednesday.

[...]
>  - unload not on close, but on device unregister (iow not when you do
> "ifconfig eth0 down", but when the "eth0" device really goes away)

Without further action, the firmware(s) will thus be locked in until the
driver is removed. 

> But as mentioned, the above is (a) just my gut feel - please discuss -
> and (b) I really think that leaving this to the network driver has
> been shown to continually result in the drivers doing the firmware
> load/unload in all the wrong places.

As long as it can be fixed... If the 60s delay is removed and the firmware
loading emits some messages for programmer barbie, I am more than happy.

If someone can tell me where Realtek's firmware should be sent to as David
W. seems to be busy, it will be perfect.

-- 
"Lack of vision" Ueimor
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