Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:24:25 -0700 (PDT)
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To: rene.herman@keyaccess.nl
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       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.
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:23:14 +0200

> On 15-07-08 03:52, David Miller wrote:
> 
> > From: david@lang.hm Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:51:37 -0700 (PDT)
> > 
> >> I agree with this, but the proponents of the seperate firmware are
> >> listing the fact that the firmware doesn't tie up ram as one of the
> >> big reasons for making the change.
> > 
> > Exactly.
> > 
> > Otherwise these firmware changes are utterly pointless.
> 
> The point of them is legal.

Thanks for proving something I tried to establish for weeks
but which Alan Cox, David W., and others vehemently denied.

They states that it was being done on a technical basis rather
than being predominantly a legal one.
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