On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:32:50PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>
> 1) Register a file on procfs and use "cat" to load the firmware into the
> kernel.
That would work.
> 2) Register a device for the same purpose.
>
> 3) Register a device, but use ioctl().
>
> 4) Open a network socket and use ioctl() on it (like ifconfig does).
That's a nice way, as you don't need to register a device.
> 5) Use one of the the above ways to send the filename to the module and
> let the module load the firmware from file using do_generic_file_read().
Ick, I wouldn't recommend having the kernel do this, it's nicer to have
userspace do the firmware send.
> 6) Provide a script to wrap firmware into a module and load it using
> modprobe.
I don't think that this would be accepted into the main kernel tree, and
vendors might have a problem with it.
> 7) Encode the firmware into a header file, add it to the driver and
> pretend that the copyright issue doesn't exist (like it's done in the
> Keyspan USB driver).
Hey, that's the way I like doing this stuff :)
Almost any of the above would probably work well, and I think all except
#5 and #6 are currently done in the main kernel tree.
Good luck,
greg k-h
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