Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760003AbYGPA30 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:29:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754404AbYGPA3Q (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:29:16 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:35394 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753085AbYGPA3P (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:29:15 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:28:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Frans Pop cc: david@lang.hm, Marcel Holtmann , David Woodhouse , jeff@garzik.org, arjan@infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.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. In-Reply-To: <200807160222.40705.elendil@planet.nl> Message-ID: References: <1216077806.27455.85.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <200807160222.40705.elendil@planet.nl> 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: 646 Lines: 19 On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > > Where did you get this strange notion that mkinitrd is the _only_ (your > emphasis) thing people use? Heh. Maybe from the fact that I don't personally use modules or initrd at all, and have no interest in doing so ;) Ok, so people use other things. Grr. I guess we can't just require updated tools, because we don't know what the tools are. 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/