Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756546AbYGOXrR (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:47:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753611AbYGOXrF (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:47:05 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:49579 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753134AbYGOXrE (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:47:04 -0400 Message-ID: <487D36D9.6020105@garzik.org> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:46:33 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Jones , 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. 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> <20080715230204.GC10532@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20080715230204.GC10532@redhat.com> 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: 1025 Lines: 28 Dave Jones wrote: > 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. Grin, http://docs.fedoraproject.org/fedora-install-guide-en/fc5/sn-bootoptions-hardware.html Or DKMS, which should package firmware: http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml -- 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/