Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751011AbZKNRy6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:54:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750961AbZKNRy5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:54:57 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.177]:58174 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750955AbZKNRy5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:54:57 -0500 From: Arnd Bergmann To: venu Subject: Re: firmware loading interface Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:54:48 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31-14-generic; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Philip Downer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <4AFD971C.3090204@csldevices.co.uk> <200911132029.01432.arnd@arndb.de> <53ea87da0911140951q1050212fwe9f5839b900b3804@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53ea87da0911140951q1050212fwe9f5839b900b3804@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200911141854.48783.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/gDirfkVpI/3XgG8Di+taJ4awFD+TWUUuVrzC 2s4+Y9kd9yeuGcti5TYhhJsZfcthy1h3uaBNZXqd8IEYg+mivU aiK5+6wxhxCtPu+OZqVAw== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 639 Lines: 17 On Saturday 14 November 2009, venu wrote: > Hi Arnd, > > When the driver calls the request_firmware during initialization where is > the firmware stored. What mean to ask is where the path it picks th firmware > from ? See Documentation/firmware_class/README. The file name is hardcoded in the device driver. The path is part of the hotplug implementation, typicaly /lib/firmware. Arnd <>< -- 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/