Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] RFC: Moving firmware blobs out of the kernel. | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Fri, 30 May 2008 13:38:38 +0300 |
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On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 10:20 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Not all firmware has the ability to check the version :( > > > > So while Arjan's goal would be nice, Matthew is right, this can't happen > > for all types of firmware. > > Well for loaded or packaged firmware it can happen. Just stick a revision > number on the start of the firmware file and check it rather than load it > into the hardware in that specific driver.
Or append it to the name of the firmware file, in some cases.
-- dwmw2
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