Documentation:reference notifiers.txt in freezing-of-tasks.txt

freezing-of-tasks.txt mentions firmware issues without mentioning the use
of the new notifier API to overcome them.  Here's an update.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt b/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt
index af1a282c71a3..04dc1cf9d215 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.