From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965436AbWH2WRU (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:17:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965439AbWH2WRT (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:17:19 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.171]:63975 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965436AbWH2WRT (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:17:19 -0400 From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@elstempel.de> Subject: Re: [PATCH] MODULE_FIRMWARE for binary firmware(s) To: Michael Buesch , Greg KH , Oleg Verych , James Bottomley , Sven Luther , debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Lang Reply-To: 7eggert@gmx.de Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:10:42 +0200 References: <6OXsW-4pW-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <6Peat-82q-17@gated-at.bofh.it> <6PgFh-53l-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <6Ph8l-61I-9@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Troll: Tanz Message-Id: X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-Information: See www.mailscanner.info for information X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-From: 7eggert@elstempel.de X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:9b3b2cc444a07783f194c895a09f1de9 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Michael Buesch wrote: > The ipw needs the firmware on insmod time (in contrast to bcm43xx > for example, which needs it on ifconfig up time). > So ipw needs to call request_firmware at insmod time. In case of > built-in, that is when the initcall happens. No userland is available > and request_firmware can not call the userspace helpers to upload > the firmware to sysfs. > Well, not really easy to find a sane solution for this. :) Can you trigger loading the firmware from userspace? echo 1 > /sys/module/iw2200/parameters/load_firmware_now -- Ich danke GMX dafür, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF verbreiteten Lügen zu sabotieren. http://david.woodhou.se/why-not-spf.html