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Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 00:13:56 +0000
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: loading firmware while usermodehelper disabled.
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On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 11:31:55PM +0000, Jack Stone wrote:

> Rather than merging the drivers we could make the uvcvideo (or any other
> generic driver) driver expose a "subdriver" interface that allows
> another module to bind to the specific ID and add extra handling to
> certain events. We could then use that interface to provide a firmware
> driver for each device that needs it. The firmware driver could bind to
> the bootstrap device and to the uvcvideo subdriver interface and it
> would then have all the lifetime info we need. [Credit to Linus for
> suggesting this idea]

No, the uvcvideo driver would need to call out to load the firmware 
loader driver, otherwise you'll never know to load the firmware loader 
driver.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org