Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759170AbYGOTyJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:54:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757324AbYGOTxx (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:53:53 -0400 Received: from senator.holtmann.net ([87.106.208.187]:33723 "EHLO mail.holtmann.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753647AbYGOTxv (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:53:51 -0400 Subject: Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. From: Marcel Holtmann To: Linus Torvalds Cc: David Woodhouse , Frans Pop , jeff@garzik.org, arjan@infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: 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> <1216150616.27455.377.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:54:00 +0200 Message-Id: <1216151640.27242.90.camel@violet.holtmann.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 787 Lines: 23 Hi Linus, > Requiring you to write udevd scripts for that sounds insane. I wouldn't > even know where to start. > > So kernel-specific directories do make sense. As does the whole "I don't > want to handle the pain that is udev scripts". you don't have to. We extend udev once and then it will always work. As mentioned before, Ubuntu is already doing this. They never bothered to submit this upstream and I didn't really care since I have all my firmware files in /lib/firmware and had no need to add versions to it. Regards Marcel -- 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/