Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756635AbYGPAVR (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:21:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753890AbYGPAVD (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:21:03 -0400 Received: from bee.hiwaay.net ([216.180.54.11]:9200 "EHLO bee.hiwaay.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753611AbYGPAVC (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:21:02 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 621 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:21:02 EDT Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:10:38 -0500 From: Chris Adams To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. Message-ID: <20080716001038.GA1242918@hiwaay.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <487D0ED1.7010003@garzik.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1275 Lines: 26 Once upon a time, Jeff Garzik said: >* 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. Then Red Hat driver disks are already broken, as there are current modules (e.g. qla2xxx) that require external firmware. >* Embedded projects like OpenWRT, that divide up kernel modules into >multiple packages. Since it's not just one big package, you have to >update each package's list of files to include the newly split-out >firmwares. Failure to do so results in a successful build set of >packages... of drivers that lack their firmware. AFAIK OpenWRT and the like don't just throw in random new kernel releases without at least reading release notes and testing. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- 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/