Re: [PATCH] r8169: keep firmware in memory.

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Ben Hutchings [off-list ref] wrote:

This is something I started to implement, but never got finished.  I
don't think it can be done without an API change, though, as we need
to know when to drop firmware from the cache.  But perhaps this could
be done with a hook in the device-driver binding code.

Or just associate the firmware with a module?

So if the firmware gets loaded, it stays in memory until the module is unloaded?

And this all would only be the case if CONFIG_PM is set, so you'd not
waste memory unnecessarily.

                Linus