Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Sep 2016 15:28:47 -0700 | From | Bjorn Andersson <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] fs: add userspace critical mounts event support |
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On Tue 06 Sep 14:52 PDT 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> We already have MODULE_FIRMWARE(), we could have MODULE_FIRMWARE_REQ() or > something like it to help annotate the the driver was only functional with the > firmware, punt things to kmod to deal with the requirements.
That implies that a single driver will only use a single version of the firmware. There are cases where we want a single driver to load firmware depending on e.g. hardware revisions, or previous firmware version and there are cases where we want to load firmware based on requested use-cases.
Regards, Bjorn
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