Re: firmware loading interface

Arnd Bergmann
2009-11-14T17:54:58Z

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.