Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758273AbYGOTVX (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:21:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762862AbYGOTUt (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:20:49 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:49789 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762834AbYGOTUs (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:20:48 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:19:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Jeff Garzik cc: Theodore Tso , 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: <487CF70C.1030309@garzik.org> Message-ID: References: <487C585C.2060002@garzik.org> <487CD7FE.9010209@garzik.org> <487CDEC0.3090004@garzik.org> <487CEA73.9000408@garzik.org> <487CF01E.6000208@garzik.org> <20080715185801.GH8185@mit.edu> <487CF70C.1030309@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: 646 Lines: 19 On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Already started, in fact, since Linus said he would not reject it out of > hands. Btw, I need to see it actually solve a real problem. As it is, I really think you've just painted yourself into a corner where you can't just admit that we can just load the firmware directly. Could you _please_ entertain at least thinking about that option? 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/