Re: [PATCH] MODULE_FIRMWARE for binary firmware(s)

[Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz>]

James Bottomley wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 02:35 +0200, Oleg Verych wrote:
>
> > request_firmware() is dead also.
> > YMMV, but three years, and there are still big chunks of binary in kernel.
> > And please don't add new useless info _in_ it.
>
>
> I er don't think so.
Hell, what can be as easy as this:
,-
|modprobe $drv
|(dd </lib/firmware/$drv.bin>/dev/blobs && echo OK) || echo Error
`-
where /dev/blobs is similar to /dev/port or even /dev/null char device.
if synchronization is needed, add `echo $drv >/dev/blobs`, remove modprobe,

> James
?

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