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Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 00:38:31 +0000 From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com> To: Jack Stone <jwjstone@...tmail.fm> Cc: 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>, Linux Wireless List <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: loading firmware while usermodehelper disabled. On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 12:22:58AM +0000, Jack Stone wrote: > So we have a table of USB ids that list the devices that need firmware drivers. When the uvcvideo driver registers the firmware interface with a USB id that matches the list we load the firmware driver and pass it a "warm start" event so it can cache the firmware. > > As long as we can identify the devices that *might* need firmware then we are ok. We could do all of this. Or we could just push the responsibility for this specific case back to userspace, and maybe that's what I should have done in the first place. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org -- 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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