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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 21:26:15 +0000 From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> To: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com> CC: Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>, Kalle Valo <kvalo@...rom.com>, "Luciano Coelho" <luca@...lho.fi>, "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>, <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <freemangordon@....bg>, <aaro.koskinen@....fi>, <pavel@....cz>, <sre@...g0.de>, <joni.lapilainen@...il.com>, Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...il.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 15/16] wl1251: Add sysfs file address for setting permanent mac address On Tue, 2013-12-10 at 20:31 +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: [...] > So, if you like this idea, can you help me how to write udev rule > which will run my own program (it print mac address) and send mac > address when driver ask for mac address in request_firmware? > Problem is that default udev rule for firmware trying to load data > from /lib/firmware/... but in this case mac address first must be > read from special location and converted to correct format. Unfortunately, udev no longer supports firmware loading during module loading (unless that was fixed - I don't think it has been). Loading firmware *files* still works because the kernel can read those directly rather than requesting them from udev. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked. -- 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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