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On 11/05/21 10:05 am, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 02:17:00AM +0530, Shreeya Patel wrote:
>> Theodore / Christoph, since we haven't come up with any final decision with
>> this discussion, how do you think we should proceed on this?
> I think loading it as a firmware-like table is much preferable to
> a module with all the static call magic papering over that it really is
> just one specific table.


Christoph, I get you point here but request_firmware API requires a 
device pointer and I don't
see anywhere it being NULL so I am not sure if we are going in the right 
way by loading the data as firmware like table.