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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:30:25 +0200 From: Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de> To: Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, debian-kernel@...ts.debian.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] MODULE_FIRMWARE for binary firmware(s) On Tuesday 29 August 2006 04:15, Oleg Verych wrote: > James Bottomley wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 02:35 +0200, Oleg Verych wrote: > > > >>request_firmware() is dead also. > >>YMMV, but three years, and there are still big chunks of binary in kernel. > >>And please don't add new useless info _in_ it. > > > > > > I er don't think so. > > > Hell, what can be as easy as this: > ,- > |modprobe $drv > |(dd </lib/firmware/$drv.bin>/dev/blobs && echo OK) || echo Error > `- > where /dev/blobs is similar to /dev/port or even /dev/null char device. > if synchronization is needed, add `echo $drv >/dev/blobs`, remove modprobe, Please tell me how this is going to work, if we don't know which firmware (version) is needed before be actually initialize the device? -- Greetings Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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