Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757213AbYGOXJU (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:09:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753586AbYGOXJK (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:09:10 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:41684 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753492AbYGOXJJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:09:09 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:02:04 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Linus Torvalds , Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , Frans Pop , arjan@infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, dwmw2@infradead.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. Message-ID: <20080715230204.GC10532@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Jeff Garzik , Linus Torvalds , Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , Frans Pop , arjan@infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200807151757.10626.elendil@planet.nl> <20080715180535.GA6080@khazad-dum.debian.net> <487CE917.3000000@garzik.org> <487CF29E.5000009@garzik.org> <487D01B5.7020300@garzik.org> <487D0ED1.7010003@garzik.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <487D0ED1.7010003@garzik.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 845 Lines: 25 On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 04:55:45PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > No, I spelled out a list of projects, what would break, and how it would > break. > > Again, > > * Red Hat driver disks. The build process is unaware of the need to > bundle firmware. Any use with Fedora (or, later, RHEL) will result in a > non-working driver, for the simple reason that firmware is not copied > onto the image. For old RHEL - they won't support 2.6.27, so moot. For next-gen RHEL - they need fixing anyway. For Fedora, they don't (and hopefully won't) exist. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk -- 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/