Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page]

Alan Cox
2000-11-06T21:20:48Z

> Some devices have a firmware.h that is compiled into the driver. A few
> sound devices use a function that loads a firmware file from userspace,
> given a filename. The comment in drivers/sound/sound_firmware.c says
> that this is a poor method, and that the recommended method for
> uploading firmware to a device is via ioctl.

modutils has a post-install facility that supports firmware load via ioctl
beautifully too