On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>
> This sounds awfully like firmware loader that seems to be working just
> fine for a range of network cards and other devices.
Yes. HOWEVER - and note how firmware loading for this case is not validly
done at device discovery, but at "ifconfig" time.
Ie device discovery (probing) is a _separate_ phase entirely, and happens
much earlier. We should initialize the hardware only when it actually gets
"acively used" some way by user space.
Linus
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