From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: venu <vjosyula@gmail.com>
Cc: Philip Downer <phil@csldevices.co.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: firmware loading interface
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:54:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200911141854.48783.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53ea87da0911140951q1050212fwe9f5839b900b3804@mail.gmail.com>
On Saturday 14 November 2009, venu wrote:
> Hi Arnd,
>
> When the driver calls the request_firmware during initialization where is
> the firmware stored. What mean to ask is where the path it picks th firmware
> from ?
See Documentation/firmware_class/README. The file name is hardcoded
in the device driver. The path is part of the hotplug implementation,
typicaly /lib/firmware.
Arnd <><
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-14 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <4AFD971C.3090204@csldevices.co.uk>
2009-11-13 17:47 ` firmware loading interface Philip Downer
2009-11-13 19:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
[not found] ` <53ea87da0911140951q1050212fwe9f5839b900b3804@mail.gmail.com>
2009-11-14 17:54 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2009-11-16 10:57 ` Philip Downer
2009-11-14 0:35 ` Roland Dreier
2009-11-14 16:08 ` Robert Hancock
[not found] ` <53ea87da0911140855u7993989aod746bcaf18ee4c31@mail.gmail.com>
2009-11-14 18:19 ` Robert Hancock
2009-11-14 18:29 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-16 11:16 ` Philip Downer
2009-12-01 9:14 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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