Messages in this thread | | | From | Oleg Verych <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] MODULE_FIRMWARE for binary firmware(s) | Date | Tue, 29 Aug 2006 04:15:49 +0200 |
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James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 02:35 +0200, Oleg Verych wrote: > >>request_firmware() is dead also. >>YMMV, but three years, and there are still big chunks of binary in kernel. >>And please don't add new useless info _in_ it. > > > I er don't think so. > Hell, what can be as easy as this: ,- |modprobe $drv |(dd </lib/firmware/$drv.bin>/dev/blobs && echo OK) || echo Error `- where /dev/blobs is similar to /dev/port or even /dev/null char device. if synchronization is needed, add `echo $drv >/dev/blobs`, remove modprobe,
> > James > ?
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