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But it does not work, and as you demonstrated, getting it to work w/o
preloading is awful lot of work. Feel free to send a patch. Unless you
are ready to do that, stop confusing driver authors.
Firmware loader is complex userspace process. That's not silly. It is
userland, and I'd hate to explain to its authors detailed rules.
It could do 'find / -name "pcmcia-card-firmware"' for example. It
could do dbus message to tell gnome-graphical-crap to display window
to say that it is loading firmware. Maybe it also writes to syslog
when syslogd is available.
It is userland process, so it is allowed to do stupid stuff.
[If you do not agree, please try to write up
"Doc*/what-firmware-loader-must-do.txt" -- at that point you should
realize how ugly the solution you are suggesting is.]
Pavel
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