Re: [PATCH] MODULE_FIRMWARE for binary firmware(s)

Michael Buesch
2006-08-29T16:31:04Z

On Tuesday 29 August 2006 04:15, Oleg Verych wrote:
> James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 02:35 +0200, Oleg Verych wrote:
> >
> >>request_firmware() is dead also.
> >>YMMV, but three years, and there are still big chunks of binary in kernel.
> >>And please don't add new useless info _in_ it.
> >
> >
> > I er don't think so.
> >
> Hell, what can be as easy as this:
> ,-
> |modprobe $drv
> |(dd </lib/firmware/$drv.bin>/dev/blobs && echo OK) || echo Error
> `-
> where /dev/blobs is similar to /dev/port or even /dev/null char device.
> if synchronization is needed, add `echo $drv >/dev/blobs`, remove modprobe,

Please tell me how this is going to work, if we don't
know which firmware (version) is needed before be actually
initialize the device?

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Greetings Michael.