Re: How the kernel firmware loader works

2006-01-09 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 12:05:48AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: (#104) How the kernel firmware loader works fEnIo[0] learnt an important lesson about the kernel firmware loader: it (usually) does not work as expected for non-modular drivers. Yeah... thanks a lot for your explanation. I'm now

How the kernel firmware loader works

2006-01-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
Gated from my blog. (#104) How the kernel firmware loader works fEnIo[0] learnt an important lesson about the kernel firmware loader: it (usually) does not work as expected for non-modular drivers. The reason is that the request_firmware()[1] interface is synchronous. Since it's usually called