[PATCH] Add subsystem support to mdev (firmware loading)

[Erik Andersen]

On Fri Oct 20, 2006 at 02:24:25PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Thursday 19 October 2006 4:11 pm, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > I ended up needing to do some firmware loading myself, so I've
> > put together an alternative patch to handle firmware loading
> > within mdev.  My patch is a bit larger, but does not require any
> > external script (or even a shell), making it faster, better
> > suited for use in early userspace, and (most importantly) it does
> > what I happened to need yesterday.  I've tested it using a
> > usb speedtouch modem and an AIC-9405W SAS adapter and It Worked
> > For Me(tm).  So perhaps it might work for others as well...
> 
> Ooh!  I'm sucking this into toybox.  (Which may actually have its 0.01 release 
> this weekend, if I can get BusyBox 1.2.2 out of the way early enough.)

I actually hacked this into my hacked up hotplug util, then later
ported it over to mdev.  So when I said I had tested it, I tested
it as part of hotplug.  The conversion to live in mdev was simply
checked to see if it compiled.  :-)

 -Erik

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