Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762965AbYGOUc1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:32:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755879AbYGOUcR (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:32:17 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:46953 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755345AbYGOUcQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:32:16 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:30:57 -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: <1216153270.27242.110.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> <1216151640.27242.90.camel@violet.holtmann.net> <1216153270.27242.110.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: 664 Lines: 21 On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > > so request_firmware() is well established and works. It is used by a > bunch of drivers at the moment. That's not the question. The question is whether it works with the *new* users. Which it would apparently NOT do for everybody if we put the new drivers in any other place than /lib/firmware, very much including a kernel- specific subdirectory there. 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/