Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757753AbYGOFiO (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:38:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754368AbYGOFh6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:37:58 -0400 Received: from mail.lang.hm ([64.81.33.126]:56587 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754249AbYGOFh6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:37:58 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:37:58 -0700 (PDT) From: david@lang.hm X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard To: David Woodhouse cc: Willy Tarreau , Linus Torvalds , Jeff Garzik , Arjan van de Ven , Andrew Morton , 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: <1216099930.27455.205.camel@shinybook.infradead.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> <20080715050654.GH1369@1wt.eu> <1216099930.27455.205.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 949 Lines: 21 On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 07:06 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: >> This is just a matter of point of view. From my POV, having to feed >> several unrelated files into a system to be able to get it to support >> any device is moving backwards, compared to the currently clean >> all-in-1 driver model. > > So you disapprove of having to load mac80211.ko before your wireless NIC > driver? Or sungem_phy.ko before sungem.ko? Or libphy.ko before various > other drivers? > > Or having to install /sbin/modprobe before you can load modules? I actually have systems that don't have modprobe (Tivo series 1 boxes, they have the insmod/rmmod binary , but not modproble) -- 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/