On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 08:51:58PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > Besides, the initramfs runs long after the driver init routine
> > runs which is when the firmware needs to be available.
>
> .. unless you use sysfs to do a fake hotunplug + replug the device, at
> which point the driver init routine runs again.
Can we document how to do that? I've wanted to synthesize such
things before, and I couldn't quite reason how.
In my case, I had RHEL4 module-init-tools that don't wait for
modprobe, so I had to compile in scsi and qla2x00, but the qla2x00 needs
firmware, and it's too early...etc.
Joel
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