On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 11:31:55PM +0000, Jack Stone wrote: > Rather than merging the drivers we could make the uvcvideo (or any other > generic driver) driver expose a "subdriver" interface that allows > another module to bind to the specific ID and add extra handling to > certain events. We could then use that interface to provide a firmware > driver for each device that needs it. The firmware driver could bind to > the bootstrap device and to the uvcvideo subdriver interface and it > would then have all the lifetime info we need. [Credit to Linus for > suggesting this idea] No, the uvcvideo driver would need to call out to load the firmware loader driver, otherwise you'll never know to load the firmware loader driver. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
