On 4/15/06, Jon Masters <[email protected]> wrote:
> The attached patch introduces MODULE_FIRMWARE as one way of advertising
> that a particular firmware file is to be loaded - it will then show up
> via modinfo and could be used e.g. when packaging a kernel. I've also
> given an example via the QLogic gla2xxx driver.
Ok. If nobody shouts today I'm going to suggest this go into 2.6.17. I
think more ellaborate schemes will come up later, but we also need
something usable out there now.
As others have pointed out, cunning schemes to hack how
request_firmware et al work are all very well and good, but often we
just don't know what firmware we'll need until runtime. Unless or
until there's a good way to address that, I think modules will need to
advertise every firmware and distros will have to package all possible
firmwares, just in case.
Jon.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
