On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 05:52:44PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 15:39 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 May 2008 17:00:30 -0500 James Bottomley wrote:
> > > 1. No stubs and simply select FW_LOADER for everything
> > > 2. Stubs that actually work in all situations.
> > >
> > > My patch does 2. I can see an argument for 1. but since we have the
> > > stubs, making them work in all cases seems like the smaller change to
> > > functionality.
> >
> > Oh, I'm for the stubs approach.
> >
> > So with SCSI_SAS_LIBSAS=y and FW_LOADER=m, you would want/expect
> > request_firmware() to return -EINVAL all of the time?
>
> If you want stubs, yes
>...
I think I was the only one who had doubts about this patch.
And I've turned into a fan of your patch (plus my
"always enable FW_LOADER unless EMBEDDED=y" patch).
Can you (re)submit your patch so that it gets into 2.6.26?
> James
Thanks
Adrian
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