Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756801AbYGOPMD (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:12:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752811AbYGOPLy (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:11:54 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:57186 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752559AbYGOPLx (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:11:53 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:10:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Jeff Garzik cc: David Woodhouse , 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: <487C5ABE.2010907@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> <487C500F.8000109@garzik.org> <1216107418.27455.236.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <487C5ABE.2010907@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: 1077 Lines: 31 On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > With this change, there are several exceptions where this is not the case, > across all driver types -- media, wan, char, net, scsi, ... > > Package manifests, build scripts and other details MUST be updated, or these > drivers will not work as they did in kernels <= 2.6.26. Umm. I complained six months ago when the e1000e driver took over, and the e1000 driver stopped working for me, and you suddenly had to know which version of the e1000 you had - even though there was not any sane way to tell them apart. Ingo _still_ complains about that occasionally. What did you do? You didn't care. Now you suddenly do care that some driver needs additional love and learning. I call bullshit. You don't like the change - ok. But stop making bogus arguments about it. 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/