On Fri, May 05, 2000, Johan Verrept <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
>
> > Hm, actually they could just register with usb/empty or some such
> > directory and devfsd would come along, start up a userspace program that
> > would dump the firmware to it, then the device would reenumerate
> > (causing the usb/empty/0 node to disappear) and some other driver would
> > be attached to it like it happens today.
> >
> > That might work, I really want to move these firmware images out of
> > kernel memory. I just see them as taking up unnecessary room.
>
> hehehe.
> wait until you see the size of the SpeedTouch USB firmware... I download
> the firmware using devfs first, then insert the module. (because of some
> problems we'll discuss later ;)
> btw: the SpeedTouch does not change his vendor id (or enumerate) after
> firmware download...
This could also be handled by executing a program to download the
firmware, then when it finishes successfully, bind a driver to the
device.
JE
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