Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754140AbYGOPFj (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:05:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751661AbYGOPFc (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:05:32 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:49106 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751118AbYGOPFb (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:05:31 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:04:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Jeff Garzik cc: david@lang.hm, 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: <487C585C.2060002@garzik.org> Message-ID: References: <1216077806.27455.85.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20080714164119.99c33d5b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080714165956.7fe2d4ee@infradead.org> <487C585C.2060002@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: 614 Lines: 19 On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > A more complex, multi-file inter-dependent system is more reliable than a > single-file driver with built-in firmware, doing the same thing? I'm not interested in your made-up arguments. Please just build everything statically. Don't use modules. They are clearly too complex for you, adn everybody is happy. 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/