Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758033AbYGOXMO (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:12:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754918AbYGOXL6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:11:58 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:41795 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754419AbYGOXL5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:11:57 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:04:46 -0400 From: Dave Jones 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. Message-ID: <20080715230446.GD10532@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , David Woodhouse , 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 References: <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> <1216151866.26991.4.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1216151866.26991.4.camel@shinybook.infradead.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: 877 Lines: 21 On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:57:46PM -0700, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 12:49 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > So kernel-specific directories do make sense. As does the whole "I > > don't want to handle the pain that is udev scripts". > > I'm not violently opposed to kernel-specific directories. Ubuntu does it > that way already, and it may well make sense. I'm not sure it's really > necessary either, but it's an option. Some of the wireless drivers have an issue where firmware x works with driver y, so it's useful for that case even if nothing else uses it. 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/