[rfc patch] libertas: fix if_spi_prog_helper_firmware()

[Colin McCabe]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:15 AM, Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 14:07 +0200, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>> The indenting is not correct here.  I don't have this hardware and I'm
>> just guessing as to what was intended.  I think that if there is an
>> error we should return an error code, but if there isn't an error we
>> should return success directly without releasing the firmware.
> [...]
>
> The driver doesn't use or refer to the firmware image once it's copied
> into device RAM, so this just leaks the firmware.
>
> The driver *should* keep a reference so it can restore the firmware
> after suspend/resume without filesystem access (which is likely to
> deadlock).

Well, if all you want to do is put the device into "deep sleep" mode,
you will not need a firmware reload after waking it up.

P.S. I notice that if_spi.c is still setting priv->enter_deep_sleep = NULL
Too bad. This feature IS available with the SPI interface.

regards,
Colin McCabe