Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762282AbYGOCl0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:41:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757078AbYGOCke (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:40:34 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:40378 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761949AbYGOCkb (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:40:31 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:40:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080714.194032.117461306.davem@davemloft.net> To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: jeff@garzik.org, arjan@infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, 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. From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <487C09EB.1050903@garzik.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 772 Lines: 21 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:33:25 -0700 (PDT) > > > 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. Jeff's not against request_firmware() in an of itself. He's against the fact that it's not possible to build a self-contained foo.ko module file any longer, and that would definitely be possible with using request_firmware(). -- 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/