Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:09:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
cc: david@lang.hm, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       David Woodhouse <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.
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On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> I'm curious how that works, especially given that you have claimed the _exact
> opposite_ in years past, by pointing out how firmware separation could mean
> no-boot.

Umm. Firmware separation _could_ mean non-boot.

DavidW &co fixed it. You can now build it in.

You seem to ignore that things change, and _have_ changed.

		Linus
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