Re: firmware loading interface

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:19:13 -0600
Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 10:55 AM, venu <vjosyula@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Âwho triggers this upgrade from userspace ? I understand it is a
> > naivee / beginers questions but i hope somebody explains me how ?
> 
> The request_firmware interface probably isn't suitable for that..
> using an ioctl or read/write-based interface, possibly on a separate
> device node, would likely be the way to go..
> 

it's not unusual to have a sysfs attribute that, when written to, will
just do a request_firmware().
It's not pretty, but it's cleaner than the alternatives....


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