Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 00:37:02 +0000
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: loading firmware while usermodehelper disabled.
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On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 12:20:48AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > No, the uvcvideo driver would need to call out to load the firmware 
> > loader driver, otherwise you'll never know to load the firmware loader 
> > driver.
> 
> Does that not simply depend which driver has the relevant USB
> identifiers ?

If something presents as a class device then it's going to be picked up 
by the class driver.

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