> Using request_firmware assumes that the driver knows the FW file name
no it knows an ALIAS for it. > and the driver initiates the load. That's not our model where we work > with different FWs, don't know what the names are, you can have the user make a symlink to the one he wants. No Big Deal. > and the user > initiates the load. that sounds broken, but you can have a sysfs parameter for "load now"; cpu microcode has something like that as well.. but are you really sure you don't want to just do the load at "up" time ? -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html