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On 4/15/06, Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> wrote: > The attached patch introduces MODULE_FIRMWARE as one way of advertising > that a particular firmware file is to be loaded - it will then show up > via modinfo and could be used e.g. when packaging a kernel. I've also > given an example via the QLogic gla2xxx driver. Ok. If nobody shouts today I'm going to suggest this go into 2.6.17. I think more ellaborate schemes will come up later, but we also need something usable out there now. As others have pointed out, cunning schemes to hack how request_firmware et al work are all very well and good, but often we just don't know what firmware we'll need until runtime. Unless or until there's a good way to address that, I think modules will need to advertise every firmware and distros will have to package all possible firmwares, just in case. Jon. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.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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