Re: [RFC][PATCH] PM: Print a warning if firmware is requested whentasks are frozen

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> But you can safely call this function with nowait set, and this warning
> should not be triggered, right?

Why would you want that?

It's _always_ wrong to ask for firmware during resume. "nowait" or not
is totally irrelevant. A driver that depends on the firmware being
built in to the kernel is a buggy driver, why would you want to
silently allow that kind of crap? It's just a timebomb waiting for
somebody to compile the kernel differently.

                      Linus
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