Re: How to read a file from a device driver?

[Matthew N. Dodd]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Gary T. Corcoran wrote:
> I'm trying to initialize a network device, and I'm trying to download
> code *into* my device from some binary system files.  There is no
> "user space" or user process, for that matter, to deal with at this
> point. I just want to (at this step) open a file(s) directly from my
> device driver, read the file(s), and download the relevant parts to my
> device.

There isn't really any clean way of doing this so most drivers that need
to load firmware usually compile them in.  :/

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