Subject: Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from
	in-kernel, use it in more drivers.
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 14:47 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:24:21 -0700
> 
> > Kernel 2.6.15 with ancient userland. You update to 2.6.16, which
> > includes commit 5433383e ('convert qla2xxx to request_firmware()').
> > 
> > Same problem?
> 
> For the record I did get burnt by that one and I did make a huge stink
> about it.
> 
> I used to be able to avoid initrd entirely on every single one of my
> boxes, even my machines with qla2xxx based root filesystems, and that
> changeset basically meant the end of that.

Until now. The only significant _generic_ change that just went into
Linus' kernel is the fact that you can now build that firmware _into_
your kernel, and you can boot qla2xxx without an initrd again.

HTH.

-- 
dwmw2

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