Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965268AbWH2TFy (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:05:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965272AbWH2TFy (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:05:54 -0400 Received: from static-ip-62-75-166-246.inaddr.intergenia.de ([62.75.166.246]:47026 "EHLO bu3sch.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965268AbWH2TFv (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:05:51 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH] MODULE_FIRMWARE for binary firmware(s) Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:04:24 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <1156802900.3465.30.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <20060829183208.GA11468@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20060829183208.GA11468@kroah.com> Cc: Oleg Verych , James Bottomley , Sven Luther , debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Lang MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608292104.24645.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1381 Lines: 32 On Tuesday 29 August 2006 20:32, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 08:46:45AM -0700, David Lang wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Greg KH wrote: > > > > >I think the current way we handle firmware works quite well, especially > > >given the wide range of different devices that it works for (everything > > >from BIOS upgrades to different wireless driver stages). > > > > the current system works for many people yes, but not everyone. > > > > I'm still waiting to find a way to get the iw2200 working without having to > > use modules. > > Sounds like a bug you need to pester the iw2200 developers about then. > I don't think it has much to do with the firmware subsystem though :) Well, yes and no. The ipw needs the firmware on insmod time (in contrast to bcm43xx for example, which needs it on ifconfig up time). So ipw needs to call request_firmware at insmod time. In case of built-in, that is when the initcall happens. No userland is available and request_firmware can not call the userspace helpers to upload the firmware to sysfs. Well, not really easy to find a sane solution for this. :) -- Greetings Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/