[ivtv-users] Delay loading v4l-cx25840.fw

[Michael Cree]

On 29/04/2009, at 6:19 PM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 April 2009 04:56:53 Andy Walls wrote:
>> The ivtv and cx25840 module should be deferring the cx2584x firmware
>> load until the chip is actually needed.  Then the actual loading is  
>> spun
>> off to some transient kernel thread to get the job done in parallel  
>> with
>> other processes.
>
> What does surprise me here is that the fw is loaded right after the  
> driver
> was loaded, which does suggest that some process is opening one of the
> device nodes since the fw load is only done on the first open.

Loading lirc drivers maybe?

Michael.