Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753578AbYGOVZB (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:25:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757339AbYGOVYn (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:24:43 -0400 Received: from mail.lang.hm ([64.81.33.126]:48361 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756328AbYGOVYm (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:24:42 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:24:58 -0700 (PDT) From: david@lang.hm X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm To: David Woodhouse cc: Marcel Holtmann , Linus Torvalds , Jeff Garzik , Arjan van de Ven , Andrew Morton , 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: <1216152377.26991.10.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Message-ID: References: <1216077806.27455.85.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20080714164119.99c33d5b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080714165956.7fe2d4ee@infradead.org> <487C585C.2060002@garzik.org> <487CD7FE.9010209@garzik.org> <487CDEC0.3090004@garzik.org> <487CEA73.9000408@garzik.org> <1216146651.27455.336.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <1216152021.27242.94.camel@violet.holtmann.net> <1216152377.26991.10.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1139 Lines: 26 On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 22:00 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote: >> I really think we should use /lib/firmware/`uname -r`/. I do see the >> point here that I don't wanna overwrite existing firmware from other >> installed kernels. Especially if modules_install will install the >> firmware files. >> >> So in case of non-Ubuntu distros we have to push a fix to udev, but that >> is not a big deal. It should be a one-line change if I am not mistaken. > > My concern with that is that even though it's a one-line change, it's a > one-line change which people don't already _have_. We really do need to > remain compatible with existing setups. when I read this I had to double check who the mail was from. this sounds like exactly the statement that Jeff has been making in his arguments to allow for the firmware-in-the-modules approach. David Lang -- 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/