Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762685AbYGOSWf (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:22:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757635AbYGOSWO (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:22:14 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:41406 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755879AbYGOSWO (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:22:14 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:21:21 -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: <487CE85D.8050107@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> <487CD7FE.9010209@garzik.org> <487CDEC0.3090004@garzik.org> <487CE85D.8050107@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: 666 Lines: 21 On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Can't you see that changing build processes takes time? Fixing driver disk > creation tools take time? Validating that each driver is packaged with its > correct firmware takes time? Umm. Can't you see that if we don't start doing it, it will never get done AT ALL? Yes, this will take time. But that's not an argument for not merging it. Quite the reverse. 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/