Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756574AbYGOXFm (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:05:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754112AbYGOXFe (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:05:34 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:55383 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753978AbYGOXFe (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:05:34 -0400 Message-ID: <487D2D30.1040304@garzik.org> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:05:20 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Woodhouse CC: David Miller , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, tytso@mit.edu, david@lang.hm, 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. References: <487D1327.7090805@garzik.org> <1216157061.26991.41.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20080715.144720.66126410.davem@davemloft.net> <1216161752.26991.61.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <1216161752.26991.61.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.5 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 577 Lines: 18 David Woodhouse wrote: > 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. Yes, that is quite nice... It will be nice to be able to do the same with modules too :) Jeff -- 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/