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SubjectRe: loading firmware while usermodehelper disabled.
On 02/01/12 21:19, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 12:48:48PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>> Why are you guys making it any more complicated than that?
>
> Because it's inadequate. You can't guarantee that we ever loaded
> firmware. The same hardware might maintain state over warm reboots but
> not over suspend. We never loaded the firmware loader driver. We never
> called request_firmware(). We have no way of knowing whether the device
> is an older one that needs firmware loading, or a newer one which has it
> in flash.
>

Can we tell by the USB ids that this is a device that might need
firmware and load it into memory anyway - it would use more memory but
would always work as we would have the firmware.

Thanks,

Jack


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