Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: Binary firmware in the kernel - licensing issues. | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 06 May 2003 13:46:41 +0100 |
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On Maw, 2003-05-06 at 13:54, Downing, Thomas wrote: > PS: what would be the preferred place to load the firmware > from, if no option giving the firmware pathname is passed to the > module at load time?
When a device appears the /sbin/hotplug scripts are called. They could either load the firmware themselves (since the usbdevfs allows you to talk directly to the device), or could make a call to give the firmware to the driver (eg ioctl)
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