Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:06:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: david@lang.hm
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
       alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel,
 use it in more drivers.
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On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:41:19 -0700
> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:23:26 -0700
>> David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Linus, please pull from the for-2.6.27 branch of:
>>> 	git://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/firmware-2.6.git
>>> for-2.6.27
>>
>> The firmware flamewars seem to have subsided lately.  Is everyone
>> happy with this now?
>>
>
> this seems to have left the contentious pieces out....

almost, the one thing that this could have done would be to offer an 
option to bundle the firmware with the module. currently it offers the 
option to load the firmware at the same time as the module, not _quite_ 
the same thing.

there was also the issue that was raised about how to handle firmware 
during suspend/resume. I don't remember seeing a happy solution to that 
one.

David Lang
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