Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Jan 2012 00:13:56 +0000 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: loading firmware while usermodehelper disabled. |
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On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 11:31:55PM +0000, Jack Stone wrote:
> Rather than merging the drivers we could make the uvcvideo (or any other > generic driver) driver expose a "subdriver" interface that allows > another module to bind to the specific ID and add extra handling to > certain events. We could then use that interface to provide a firmware > driver for each device that needs it. The firmware driver could bind to > the bootstrap device and to the uvcvideo subdriver interface and it > would then have all the lifetime info we need. [Credit to Linus for > suggesting this idea]
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.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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