Paulo Assis wrote: > For the box to function it needs a firmware upload. Currently this is > managed by a udev script that in turn calls an application (multiload) > that provides for the upload. > What I would like to know is, if this the best way to handle it? > The problem with this process is that it will always require > installing and configuring additional software (multiload and udev > script), besides the firmware. > Is there any simpler/standard way of handling these firmware uploads ? > Look at Documentation/firmware_class/README. There's a mechanism called request_firmware() that does what you want; it's used in several V4L drivers if you need an example usage. -- Simon Farnsworth -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
