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On Wed, 2017-05-17 at 14:53 +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:

> > In fact, why should the *driver* care either? IOW - why should
> > "request_firmware_prefer_user()" even exist?
> 
> There are default/example NVS data, which are stored in /lib/firmware
> and installed by linux-firmware package.
[...]

Oh, so you're saying you want this to invert the order ... Ok, that
makes some sense.

I still hope that all other requests will eventually fall back to user
loading though, I think that's important to system integration in
general.

johannes