Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759233AbYGOUSR (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:18:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753546AbYGOUR6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:17:58 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:46047 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750967AbYGOUR5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:17:57 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:17:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Marcel Holtmann 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 Subject: Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. In-Reply-To: <1216152609.27242.99.camel@violet.holtmann.net> 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> <1216150616.27455.377.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <1216151866.26991.4.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <1216152609.27242.99.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: 790 Lines: 20 On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > > So Ubuntu will obviously not break since it does this already. For > Fedora deploying new packages for 8 and 9 should not be a problem at all > once the maintainer is convinced that it is a good idea. They update > packages all the time anyway. For the other distros, I don't know. Umm. Again, Marcel. We don't require new user land to work. But just loading the thing on our own does solve this problem. But udev we simply cannot require people to magically have a new version of. 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/