Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762660AbYGOUZa (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:25:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756932AbYGOUZV (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:25:21 -0400 Received: from senator.holtmann.net ([87.106.208.187]:37371 "EHLO mail.holtmann.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756527AbYGOUZU (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:25:20 -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> <1216151866.26991.4.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <1216152609.27242.99.camel@violet.holtmann.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:25:29 +0200 Message-Id: <1216153529.27242.116.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: 1307 Lines: 34 Hi Linus, > > 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. we might have to do a step by step upgrade for this. Something like install everything in /lib/firmware/`uname -r`/ and create symlinks for a grace period of the next sixt month or something like this. These are details that have be sorted out, but should not stop us to get this right. And before you say anything. You can expect that firmware loading from /lib/firmware works almost everywhere. At least this has been for the last 3 years or so. Remember that we do have request_firmware() even in the latest 2.4 kernels. 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/