From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261681AbTJHPgS (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2003 11:36:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261683AbTJHPgS (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2003 11:36:18 -0400 Received: from mail.convergence.de ([212.84.236.4]:65511 "EHLO mail.convergence.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261681AbTJHPgR (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2003 11:36:17 -0400 Message-ID: <3F842EEE.5070001@convergence.de> Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:36:14 +0200 From: Michael Hunold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030903 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: de-de, de-at, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcel Holtmann CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/14] firmware update for av7110 dvb driver References: <10656197272107@convergence.de> <1065624307.5470.242.camel@pegasus> In-Reply-To: <1065624307.5470.242.camel@pegasus> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello Marcel, >>... send to Linus only. (You don't want a 150kB bzip2 compressed firmware blob, don't you? In case you do, drop me a line.) > the request_firmware() framework is part of Linux 2.4 and 2.6 and so for > most drivers the firmware file can be loaded from userspace through proc > or sysfs. Please take a look at it. Yes, we know. When I looked at it the last time, there were some problems that kept us from actually finishing the work. (If you did not use a hotplug agent, then the system was frozen, because the firmware foo did not use it's own workqueue) I gave some feedback, but I don't know if the fixes made it into the kernel yet. I have once patched our drivers to use request_firmware() and I have these patches still lying around, so I'll try and see if they work when I have some spare time. > Regards > Marcel CU Michael.