Re: Exposing ROM's though sysfs

From: Alan Cox (alan_at_lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: 07/31/04

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    To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Date:	Fri, 30 Jul 2004 23:39:14 +0100

    On Gwe, 2004-07-30 at 19:12, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
    > I don't see a good way of doing this, unfortunately. It'd probably be
    > enough to call ->suspend on the driver while you read the contents of
    > the ROM, but that's pretty ugly.

    Is the BIOS guaranteed readable in D3 if we call suspend ?

    Since we only need the BIOS in some special cases we could just reject
    the request if the device is in use. If it has a driver - ask the
    driver, if it doesn't then ask sysfs.
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