Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756124AbYGOWvT (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:51:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752516AbYGOWvJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:51:09 -0400 Received: from mail.lang.hm ([64.81.33.126]:42227 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753415AbYGOWvI (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:51:08 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:50:09 -0700 (PDT) From: david@lang.hm X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm To: David Woodhouse 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 Subject: Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. In-Reply-To: <1216160785.26991.51.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Message-ID: 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> <1216160785.26991.51.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: 973 Lines: 23 On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, David Woodhouse wrote: > 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. not always, as Jeff showed. 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/