Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761118AbYGORqW (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:46:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753611AbYGORqN (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:46:13 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:36227 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752531AbYGORqN (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:46:13 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:45:07 -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: Message-ID: References: <1216077806.27455.85.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20080714164119.99c33d5b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080714165956.7fe2d4ee@infradead.org> <487C585C.2060002@garzik.org> <487CD7FE.9010209@garzik.org> <487CDEC0.3090004@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: 1103 Lines: 27 On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > This is the "I'm too stupid to live" argument. I've already answered that. > What's so hard with "make firmware_install"? Btw, that is by no means the only way to handle it either. As I said in other emails - about trying to find _productive_ questions to answer - maybe we could also just install it in the modules directory or some similar per-kernel location, and just teach request_firmware() to load binary blobs directly. Then - horror of horrors - we could even make "make modules_install" do things like that automatically for you with some Makefile rule trickery. See? There are _productive_ things you can do or ask others to do. But singing the same "I'm so stupid that I cannot install the firmware" song over and over again doesn't make me think you are worth listening to. 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/