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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image
On 23-05-08 18:44, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:38:41PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 06:21:01PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>>> Looks good.
>>> But do we need the firmware after init?
>>> In other owrds could it be inside a discard after init block?
>> What is you can hotplug the device and hence need to initialize the same
>> device type multiple times? Wouldn't keeping the firmware around be
>> useful then? How about on suspend/resume, do you need to reload
>> firmware in those cases?
>
> There are cases where we need it after init.
> But if there are cases where we do not need it after init maybe
> we should be able to save some memory there?
>
> Let us get it working as is - then we can add such features later.

If embedded is the main consumer I would consider this a fairly vital
feature though.

Rene.


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