Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756852AbYGODbb (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:31:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753124AbYGODbX (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:31:23 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:38097 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752964AbYGODbW (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:31:22 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:29:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Jeff Garzik cc: Arjan van de Ven , Andrew Morton , David Woodhouse , 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. In-Reply-To: <487C1648.5070409@garzik.org> Message-ID: References: <1216077806.27455.85.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20080714164119.99c33d5b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080714165956.7fe2d4ee@infradead.org> <487C0365.5030203@garzik.org> <487C09EB.1050903@garzik.org> <487C1648.5070409@garzik.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 823 Lines: 24 On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Do you really think embedded system and micro distro authors are in 100% > agreement that /lib/firmware is best for their situation? Really? Umm. Why are you bringing up these total red herrings? Those embedded systems can just build everything into one image, and are much better off using no modules at all. But how about instead of complaining, help add the infrastructure then, so that you can insert those firmware things into modules and still use just one single interface? Move _forward_, not backwards. Linus -- 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/