On 28 May 2007, at 12:24, Kay Sievers wrote:

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> A driver for a bootup-critical device like this should just never
> release the firmware after the first load. There is absolutely no  
> point
> in doing that.

Bogus argument: is a USB-Ethernet device which needs firmware loading  
boot-up critical? Not on the surface, but if the device loads root  
over this device, it suddenly is.

This functionality should also be written into the firmware-class  
(and this fact *is* acknowledged in the sparse documentation).

Michael-Luke Jones
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