linux-kernel - Re: firmware loading interface

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Date:	Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:54:48 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	venu <vjosyula@...il.com>
Cc:	Philip Downer <phil@...devices.co.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: firmware loading interface

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.

	Arnd <><
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