RE: Binary firmware in the kernel - licensing issues.

[Alan Cox]

On Maw, 2003-05-06 at 13:54, Downing, Thomas wrote:
> PS:  what would be the preferred place to load the firmware
> from, if no option giving the firmware pathname is passed to the 
> module at load time?

When a device appears the /sbin/hotplug scripts are called. They 
could either load the firmware themselves (since the usbdevfs allows
you to talk directly to the device), or could make a call to give
the firmware to the driver (eg ioctl)