Re: ipw(4) driver

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 12:14:18AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     Another option which would work for post-boot KLD would be to have
>     the module itself open the firmware file and read it in.  DragonFly
>     has convenient fp_*() functions to make this fairly trivial.  Of
>     course, this doesn't work if the module is built-in to the kernel
>     compile but is that really a show stopper?  I don't think it is.

I don't like the idea of drivers loading stuff from the file system
automatically. I've put an item for the generic firmware layer
on my TODO list, right after ALTQ and Citrus :)

Joerg