Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 11:04:59 +1000
From: David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
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Subject: Re: airo and firmware upload (was Re: 2.6 must-fix list, v3)
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On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 04:38:26PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jean Tourrilhes <jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com> wrote:
> >
> > firmwares blobs 
> 
> well for the purposes of tracking 2.6 activities I'll separate this issue
> of firmware access policy out from drivers/net/wireless/. 
> 
> yeah, it would be nice if the core kernel provided a "give me my firmware"
> API or something.

Well, Manuel Estrada (also author of the orinoco USB patches) has
proposed one on lkml.  Doesn't look like people were happy with that
version, but I think he's still working on revising it based on
feedback.

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