Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761509AbYGPA2h (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:28:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760578AbYGPA1Y (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:27:24 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:34707 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758909AbYGPA1W (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:27:22 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:26:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Alexandre Oliva cc: David Woodhouse , Willy Tarreau , 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. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: 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> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 950 Lines: 24 On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > 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? I think that should work fine from a technical angle, and I don't disagree per se, but it really is very ugly. Wouldn't it be much simpler to just require people to have a reasonably up-to-date mkinitrd. Apparently it's not available _everywhere_, but if we check for this up-front (even if we can apparently only do so at "make install" time due to the root requirements), wouldn't that really solve the issue with much less work? Linus -- 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/