On Monday 04 February 2008 18:29:00 Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 06:08:51PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > > On Monday 04 February 2008 18:01:31 Greg KH wrote: > > > > Firmware upload -> Not sure. Do we already have some generic device > > > > firmware > > > > update API/subsystem? > > > > > > Yes, we already have a firmware interface within the kernel, that's been > > > standard for a number of years now. See include/linux/firmware.h > > > > Yeah, well. But this is different. > > This interface is for devices that need to load a firmware on > > initialization. > > This mouse has the fw flashed onto the device. So the driver doesn't need > > it on init. We rather need an interface here, over which the user can > > reflash > > this firmware. So no request_firmware() interface is needed, which the > > driver > > has to call. So this is the other way around. The user will write the fw to > > the > > hardware and it will permanently be stored. > > No, I think it's the same interface. Systems use that interface to > update the BIOS in the machine, which is the same type of need here. > When a user wants to update the firmware, they just write it to the > file, no need to do it all the time.
Ah I see. I'll have a look at it. Thanks. -- Greetings Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
