Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757369AbYGPAn1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:43:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753943AbYGPAnU (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:43:20 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:33891 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753085AbYGPAnT (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:43:19 -0400 Message-ID: <487D441B.5010908@garzik.org> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:43:07 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Frans Pop , david@lang.hm, Marcel Holtmann , David Woodhouse , 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. References: <1216077806.27455.85.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <200807160222.40705.elendil@planet.nl> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.5 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 872 Lines: 28 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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. Yes, that's part of the problem :/ Everybody seems to love rolling their own stuff in this area, partly necessitated I suppose by the wide variety of ways to boot on various platforms. Jeff -- 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/