On Nov 01, David Woodhouse <[email protected]> wrote: > Why can't we request the firmware again when the device is first used, > if it wasn't present when the driver was first loaded? For a start, because currently there is no device to use until the firmware has been loaded. If people really think that this is a problem which needs to be solved then maybe a better solution would be to extend the $DEVPATH/loading to allow loading the firmware at any time, even asyncronously after the timeout. -- ciao, Marco
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