Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:47:50 +0200 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. |
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On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 04:26:41PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > To be extremely concrete, firmware-in-module is > > * add Kconfig option (kernel-wide or per-driver, dunno) asking > "build firmware into drivers, as before?" > > * tweak build process to build firmware into foo.ko output, > probably in a specially marked ELF section > > * get request_firmware() to automatically notice that the > MODULE_FIRMWARE() was built into this driver, and to > look at the special ELF section for its data
Jeff, just thinking, wouldn't it be slightly easier to move the firmware in a separate module on its own and just add a dependency, so that foo.ko automatically loads foo-fw.ko ? I know it will be slightly differente, but would not change in-site deployment workflows nor installed scripts.
Regards, Willy
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