Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
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> On Tuesday, 29 May 2007 08:55, Kay Sievers wrote:
>> The shiny userspace firmware loading causes problems since it exists,
>> every second box has problems with it, in all sorts of situations. If
>> people are still sold to the idea of userspace firmware loading, why
>> don't we keep the data in the driver, instead of immediately
>> discarding it after the first upload? Not to waste a few hundred
>> kilobytes? That doesn't sound like a convincing deal, after all the
>> years people try to work around the issues it causes.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> Rafael

Rather than most drivers being told to make this step, can this be added 
to the firmware_class such that firmware objects are cached in RAM and 
subsequent calls to request_firmware() don't have to query userspace.

This seems the least intrusive solution to this problem.

Thanks,

Michael-Luke
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