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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt | 8 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt b/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt index af1a282c71a..04dc1cf9d21 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt +++ 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. |