RE: Binary firmware in the kernel - licensing issues.

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue May 06 2003 - 07:46:41 EST


On Maw, 2003-05-06 at 13:54, Downing, Thomas wrote:
> PS: what would be the preferred place to load the firmware
> from, if no option giving the firmware pathname is passed to the
> module at load time?

When a device appears the /sbin/hotplug scripts are called. They
could either load the firmware themselves (since the usbdevfs allows
you to talk directly to the device), or could make a call to give
the firmware to the driver (eg ioctl)

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