Re: loading firmware while usermodehelper disabled.

Alan Cox
2012-01-03T00:34:40Z

> To make the firmware caching easier I would propose one extra function
> in addition to the aforemensioned get_firmware / put_firmware - a
> find_firmware function to search the cache and return the appropriate
> firmware blob.

If the caller has a recount they have a pointer. If the caller can't work
out how to assign a 32bit value to a field in a struct please get them to
work on something less important than kernel code.

Alan