On Tue, 2013-12-10 at 20:31 +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: [...] > So, if you like this idea, can you help me how to write udev rule > which will run my own program (it print mac address) and send mac > address when driver ask for mac address in request_firmware? > Problem is that default udev rule for firmware trying to load data > from /lib/firmware/... but in this case mac address first must be > read from special location and converted to correct format.
Unfortunately, udev no longer supports firmware loading during module loading (unless that was fixed - I don't think it has been). Loading firmware *files* still works because the kernel can read those directly rather than requesting them from udev. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
