Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758983AbYGOW1S (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:27:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754390AbYGOW1F (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:27:05 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:41697 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753974AbYGOW1D (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:27:03 -0400 Subject: Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. From: David Woodhouse To: david@lang.hm Cc: Linus Torvalds , Marcel Holtmann , 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> <1216151640.27242.90.camel@violet.holtmann.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:26:25 -0700 Message-Id: <1216160785.26991.51.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: 893 Lines: 21 On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 15:24 -0700, david@lang.hm wrote: > > > Why is it suddenly so important that a kernel be 'zero impact' for that > > module case, when it's never been zero impact for that case before? You > > had to rewrite the initrd to begin with, but now you're not willing to do > > it again, just because you have to rewrite it slightly _differently_? > > becouse the tools that wrote the initrd already put the modules in. I > don't maintain those tools, they came with the distro. we're just asking > to not require those tools to be updated immediatly. The tools that write the initrd already put the firmware in too. -- 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/