Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 15/16] wl1251: Add sysfs file address for setting permanent mac address | From | Ben Hutchings <> | Date | Wed, 11 Dec 2013 21:26:15 +0000 |
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On Tue, 2013-12-10 at 20:31 +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: [...] > So, if you like this idea, can you help me how to write udev rule > which will run my own program (it print mac address) and send mac > address when driver ask for mac address in request_firmware? > Problem is that default udev rule for firmware trying to load data > from /lib/firmware/... but in this case mac address first must be > read from special location and converted to correct format.
Unfortunately, udev no longer supports firmware loading during module loading (unless that was fixed - I don't think it has been). Loading firmware *files* still works because the kernel can read those directly rather than requesting them from udev.
Ben.
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