Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758666AbYGPDIo (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:08:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757389AbYGPDId (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:08:33 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:43537 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757385AbYGPDIc (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:08:32 -0400 Message-ID: <487D660A.6090504@garzik.org> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:07:54 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Jones , Theodore Tso , Linus Torvalds , david@lang.hm, Marcel Holtmann , David Woodhouse , Frans Pop , 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. References: <1216150616.27455.377.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <1216151640.27242.90.camel@violet.holtmann.net> <20080716005133.GK8185@mit.edu> <20080716013619.GD17417@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20080716013619.GD17417@redhat.com> 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: 713 Lines: 19 Dave Jones wrote: > Whilst it would be great for unified development on the tools that > create the early boot process, I think it's a non-starter due to the > fact that you can't really do it without throwing out everything you > already have today. The same reason imo, that hpa's klibc work hasn't > gained mass-appeal from vendors. Quite true and IMO disappointing, because klibc would make great infrastructure for rolling out things just like this. 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/