Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762642AbYGOTdR (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:33:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759005AbYGOTdE (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:33:04 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:42486 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758967AbYGOTdB (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:33:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:32:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Marcel Holtmann cc: Frans Pop , 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> <1216149637.27242.65.camel@violet.holtmann.net> 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: 841 Lines: 22 On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > [..] just make the kernel able to look up binary blobs in the same place > it installed them. Obviously, we'd want to make it dynamically configurable, ie the same way we specify where to find 'modprobe', let people specify (in /proc/kernel/firmware-dir or something) where to find the firmware. Just default it to something sane (that obviously matches where we installed them). I'm not a huge udevd fan, obviously. I think we can short-circuit this all in the name of expediency, with udevd as a fallback, not as the only way. 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/