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Message-ID: <20120103003701.GA17606@srcf.ucam.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 00:37:02 +0000
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jack Stone <jwjstone@...tmail.fm>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>,
Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
Chaoming Li <chaoming_li@...lsil.com.cn>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: loading firmware while usermodehelper disabled.
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 12:20:48AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > No, the uvcvideo driver would need to call out to load the firmware
> > loader driver, otherwise you'll never know to load the firmware loader
> > driver.
>
> Does that not simply depend which driver has the relevant USB
> identifiers ?
If something presents as a class device then it's going to be picked up
by the class driver.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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