Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763577AbYGOV0Z (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:26:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751227AbYGOV0L (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:26:11 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:55944 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751306AbYGOV0J (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:26:09 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:24:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Jeff Garzik cc: Theodore Tso , david@lang.hm, Arjan van de Ven , Andrew Morton , David Woodhouse , 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: <487D1327.7090805@garzik.org> Message-ID: 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> 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: 1100 Lines: 29 On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > 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. Umm. Neither would the module. So I assume you are doing the module load from the disk, not the initrd? Or are you rebuilding the module into the initrd? If so, why didn't you do the firmware too and my "load directly from file" idea which is pretty simple? IOW, what's the fundamnetal problem here? But hey, if you _do_ the "link it together", go ahead. I don't see why it's so magically superior, but I wanted it for the compiled-in driver case, so it's not fundamentally different from that either. And I can't really find the energy to care any more. 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/