On Wed, 2017-05-17 at 14:53 +0200, Pali Rohár wrote: > > In fact, why should the *driver* care either? IOW - why should > > "request_firmware_prefer_user()" even exist? > > There are default/example NVS data, which are stored in /lib/firmware > and installed by linux-firmware package. [...] Oh, so you're saying you want this to invert the order ... Ok, that makes some sense. I still hope that all other requests will eventually fall back to user loading though, I think that's important to system integration in general. johannes