Re: firmware loading interface

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Sat Nov 14 2009 - 12:55:27 EST


On Saturday 14 November 2009, venu wrote:
> Hi Arnd,
>
> When the driver calls the request_firmware during initialization where is
> the firmware stored. What mean to ask is where the path it picks th firmware
> from ?

See Documentation/firmware_class/README. The file name is hardcoded
in the device driver. The path is part of the hotplug implementation,
typicaly /lib/firmware.

Arnd <><
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