Re: loading firmware while usermodehelper disabled.

From: Jack Stone
Date: Mon Jan 02 2012 - 15:41:16 EST


On 02/01/12 16:54, Alan Stern wrote:
> What Oliver and I have been discussing is delaying the probe call until
> after resume is finished, when userspace is back up and everything is
> operating normally again. It would be more awkward than the current
> code, but it definitely can be done.

What about the case where the firmware that needs to be loaded is on the
USB device that needs the firmware. This can be resolved at boot using
an initrd but at resume time we don't have that.

Thanks,

Jack

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