Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758094AbYGANG2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2008 09:06:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754119AbYGANGR (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2008 09:06:17 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:40420 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754566AbYGANGQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2008 09:06:16 -0400 Subject: Re: [Linux-ATM-General] [PATCH] firmware: convert Ambassador ATM driver to request_firmware() From: David Woodhouse To: "Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)" Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-atm-general@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200807011255.m61CtW6x003038@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> References: <200807011255.m61CtW6x003038@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:06:13 +0100 Message-Id: <1214917573.10393.391.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2 (2.22.2-2.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 673 Lines: 18 On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 08:55 -0400, Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR) wrote: > In message <1214853492.10393.350.camel@pmac.infradead.org>,David Woodhouse writes: > >True. But if you were to put the driver into an initrd, for example, > > that is a pretty small number of people. small enough that a physicist > would call it zero. regardless: Perhaps so. But in that case why do we bother with MODULE_FIRMWARE at all? :) -- dwmw2 -- 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/