Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756974AbYGPANR (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:13:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754219AbYGPANF (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:13:05 -0400 Received: from lsd-gw.ic.unicamp.br ([143.106.7.165]:38348 "EHLO boneca.lsd.ic.unicamp.br" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753943AbYGPANE convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:13:04 -0400 To: David Woodhouse Cc: Willy Tarreau , Linus Torvalds , Jeff Garzik , Arjan van de Ven , Andrew Morton , 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: <1216077806.27455.85.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20080714164119.99c33d5b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080714165956.7fe2d4ee@infradead.org> <487C0365.5030203@garzik.org> <487C09EB.1050903@garzik.org> <487C1648.5070409@garzik.org> <20080715050654.GH1369@1wt.eu> <1216099930.27455.205.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> From: Alexandre Oliva Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:10:59 -0300 In-Reply-To: <1216099930.27455.205.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> (David Woodhouse's message of "Mon\, 14 Jul 2008 22\:32\:10 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1220 Lines: 27 On Jul 15, 2008, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 07:06 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: >> This is just a matter of point of view. From my POV, having to feed >> several unrelated files into a system to be able to get it to support >> any device is moving backwards, compared to the currently clean >> all-in-1 driver model. > So you disapprove of having to load mac80211.ko before your wireless NIC > driver? Or sungem_phy.ko before sungem.ko? Or libphy.ko before various > other drivers? Hey, how about a config option that turns firwmare files into stand-alone kernel modules that register the blob into the request_firmware internal list, and MODULE_FIRMWARE into a module dependency? -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- 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/