Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:33:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.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, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> My complaints are about --not breaking stuff--, not request_firmware().

Guys, request_firmware() has been around for about five years now.

If this discussion had happened in 2003, I'd agree.

As it is, I think it's time to just face it - many people do want to have 
a unified interface (and yes, I obviously count myself in that group), and 
you can't just continue do nothing and ignore that.

Your argument seems to be that you don't want to break anything, but 
you've also clearly not wanted to _fix_ anything for the last five years. 

At some point, somebody has to just do it. And five years is _way_ long 
enough.

			Linus
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