On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 12:46:30PM -0700, Curtis Malainey wrote: > From: Ben Zhang > > Without this patch, the DSP firmware is loaded/unloaded synchronously > in snd_pcm_ops.open/close context. When a hotword stream is opened, > snd_pcm_ops.open/close is called multiple times. Loading firmware It would be better to just do this in the patch that adds the firmware loading.