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Subject: Re: loading firmware while usermodehelper disabled.
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> No, the uvcvideo driver would need to call out to load the firmware 
> loader driver, otherwise you'll never know to load the firmware loader 
> driver.

Does that not simply depend which driver has the relevant USB
identifiers ?