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

From: Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: debian-kernel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MODULE_FIRMWARE for binary firmware(s)
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 04:15:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44F3A355.6090408@flower.upol.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1156809344.3465.41.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com>

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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