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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/14] firmware update for av7110 dvb driver
From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Michael Hunold <hunold@linuxtv.org>
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Hi Michael,

> ... send to Linus only. (You don't want a 150kB bzip2 compressed firmware blob, don't you? In case you do, drop me a line.)

the request_firmware() framework is part of Linux 2.4 and 2.6 and so for
most drivers the firmware file can be loaded from userspace through proc
or sysfs. Please take a look at it.

Regards

Marcel