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authorOliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>2007-07-21 04:37:43 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-21 17:49:16 -0700
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Documentation:reference notifiers.txt in freezing-of-tasks.txt
freezing-of-tasks.txt mentions firmware issues without mentioning the use of the new notifier API to overcome them. Here's an update. Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt b/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt
index af1a282c71a3..04dc1cf9d215 100644
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+++ b/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt
@@ -155,6 +155,8 @@ Suppose, however, that the firmware file is located on a filesystem accessible
only through another device that hasn't been resumed yet. In that case,
request_firmware() will fail regardless of whether or not the freezing of tasks
is used. Consequently, the problem is not really related to the freezing of
-tasks, since it generally exists anyway. [The solution to this particular
-problem is to keep the firmware in memory after it's loaded for the first time
-and upload if from memory to the device whenever necessary.]
+tasks, since it generally exists anyway.
+
+A driver must have all firmwares it may need in RAM before suspend() is called.
+If keeping them is not practical, for example due to their size, they must be
+requested early enough using the suspend notifier API described in notifiers.txt.