Re: [RFC] firmware load: defer request_firmware during early bootand resume

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Fri Jul 20 2012 - 09:03:50 EST


On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 08:57:05PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > This new SYSTEM_SUSPEND state is declared above and only assigned here
> > to system_state without being tested anywhere. AFAICT, the only test
> > you're doing is system_state != SYSTEM_RUNNING and that works without
> > defining a new SYSTEM_SUSPEND state.
> >
> > So are you sure you really need it?
>
> If the approach is workable, I will rename SYSTEM_SUSPEND_DISK as
> SYSTEM_SUSPEND since SYSTEM_SUSPEND_DISK is not used now.

This still doesn't change the fact that SYSTEM_SUSPEND or
SYSTEM_SUSPEND_DISK is unused. IOW, both states are unused. So why
introduce a new state instead of simply test != SYSTEM_RUNNING?

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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