Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756090AbYGOVZb (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:25:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762986AbYGOVZC (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:25:02 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:40378 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762964AbYGOVZA (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:25:00 -0400 Subject: Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. From: David Woodhouse To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Linus Torvalds , Theodore Tso , david@lang.hm, Arjan van de Ven , Andrew Morton , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <487D1327.7090805@garzik.org> References: <487C585C.2060002@garzik.org> <487CD7FE.9010209@garzik.org> <487CDEC0.3090004@garzik.org> <487CEA73.9000408@garzik.org> <487CF01E.6000208@garzik.org> <20080715185801.GH8185@mit.edu> <487CF70C.1030309@garzik.org> <487D1327.7090805@garzik.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:24:21 -0700 Message-Id: <1216157061.26991.41.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 (2.22.3.1-1.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1384 Lines: 36 On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 17:14 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> Already started, in fact, since Linus said he would not reject it out of > >> hands. > > > > Btw, I need to see it actually solve a real problem. As it is, I really > > think you've just painted yourself into a corner where you can't just > > admit that we can just load the firmware directly. > > Kernel 2.6.26. Older userland w/ initrd requirement, plus module w/ > compiled-in firmware. > > Simply dropping 2.6.27 into that situation will produce an unbootable > system, since the firmware would not get copied into the initrd. Kernel 2.6.15 with ancient userland. You update to 2.6.16, which includes commit 5433383e ('convert qla2xxx to request_firmware()'). Same problem? Only three years ago. And not really a problem back then either, because _even_ then you had to have a fairly ancient userland for it not to work. You're far too late to start whining about it now, Jeff. We're just cleaning up the last drivers now. The rest have been where we want them to be for _years_. -- dwmw2 -- 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/