Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750830AbWH2BQA (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 21:16:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750833AbWH2BQA (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 21:16:00 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:16555 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750830AbWH2BP7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 21:15:59 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Oleg Verych Subject: Re: [PATCH] MODULE_FIRMWARE for binary firmware(s) Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 04:15:49 +0200 Organization: Palacky University in Olomouc, experimental physics dep. Message-ID: <44F3A355.6090408@flower.upol.cz> References: <1156802900.3465.30.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <1156803102.3465.34.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <20060828230452.GA4393@powerlinux.fr> <44F38BCE.2080108@flower.upol.cz> <1156809344.3465.41.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 158.194.192.153 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060607 Debian/1.7.12-1.2 X-Accept-Language: en In-Reply-To: <1156809344.3465.41.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Cc: debian-kernel@lists.debian.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 916 Lines: 28 James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 02:35 +0200, Oleg Verych wrote: > >>request_firmware() is dead also. >>YMMV, but three years, and there are still big chunks of binary in kernel. >>And please don't add new useless info _in_ it. > > > I er don't think so. > Hell, what can be as easy as this: ,- |modprobe $drv |(dd /dev/blobs && echo OK) || echo Error `- where /dev/blobs is similar to /dev/port or even /dev/null char device. if synchronization is needed, add `echo $drv >/dev/blobs`, remove modprobe, > > James > ? -- -- -o--=O`C /. .\ (+) #oo'L O o | <___=E M ^-- | (you're barking up the wrong tree) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/