Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756756AbYGPAJA (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:09:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752814AbYGPAIw (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:08:52 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:38568 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752189AbYGPAIv (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:08:51 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:00:38 -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: <20080716000038.GB17417@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: <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> <487D36D9.6020105@garzik.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <487D36D9.6020105@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: 1503 Lines: 40 On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 07:46:33PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > 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 I don't think any of this stuff has ever been actually used in a Fedora context. We certainly haven't released any official ones ttbomk. > Or DKMS, which should package firmware: > http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml Not quite the same thing as a driver disk, but I'll humour you.. That handles MODULE_FIRMWARE fine afaik. Though again, this doesn't see much actual use in a Fedora context. 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/