Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:36:14 +0200 | From | Michael Hunold <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/14] firmware update for av7110 dvb driver |
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Hello Marcel,
>>... send to Linus only. (You don't want a 150kB bzip2 compressed firmware blob, don't you? In case you do, drop me a line.)
> the request_firmware() framework is part of Linux 2.4 and 2.6 and so for > most drivers the firmware file can be loaded from userspace through proc > or sysfs. Please take a look at it.
Yes, we know. When I looked at it the last time, there were some problems that kept us from actually finishing the work.
(If you did not use a hotplug agent, then the system was frozen, because the firmware foo did not use it's own workqueue)
I gave some feedback, but I don't know if the fixes made it into the kernel yet.
I have once patched our drivers to use request_firmware() and I have these patches still lying around, so I'll try and see if they work when I have some spare time.
> Regards > Marcel
CU Michael.
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