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To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org>
From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: userland firmware loader? 
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In message <20040709232355.GB1626@green.homeunix.org>, Brian Fundakowski Feldma
n writes:

>I'm writing a driver that uses a 100KB firmware file and could need to
>read it again, after initialization, to reset the device (or to load
>more).  Since this device is primarily found in CardBus form, I think
>it makes a lot of sense to be able to get the firmware file at any time
>but without specific user intervention.
>
>Is this something devd should be doing? 

I would advocate a generic interface for retrieving firmware from userland.

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