Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761946AbYGOQhi (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:37:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760926AbYGOQhJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:37:09 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:47161 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760686AbYGOQhI (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:37:08 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:35:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Frans Pop 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. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1216077806.27455.85.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20080714164119.99c33d5b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080714165956.7fe2d4ee@infradead.org> <487C0365.5030203@garzik.org> <487C0365.5030203@garzik.org> <200807151757.10626.elendil@planet.nl> 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: 1264 Lines: 34 On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Why don't you just take the kernel-supplied firmware and make it part of > the kernel package? The same way the kernel-supplied modules are part of > it? And, btw, if there is something we can do to help, we obviously should. So ask yourself (and DavidW) things like - Is "make firmware_install" not enough for the package build system? - Does it need some other way to figure out what firmware is needed for just the configured set of drivers, eg "make firmware_list"? - Do we need to make the firmware loader have multiple directories it looks at? Do we want first a kernel-version-specific one, then a generic fallback one, so that we can easily have per-kernel firmware, the same way we have per-kernel modules? - Add your interesting question here. There are obviously all these kinds of _productive_ questions you can ask. But people seem to be mostly in an unproductive "Mommy, it hurts when I do something stupid" mode. 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/