Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers.

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To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...>, <torvalds@...>, <alan@...>, <linux-kernel@...>
Date: Monday, July 14, 2008 - 9:54 pm

Arjan van de Ven wrote:

Correction:  It seems to have completely ignored contentious issues, 
which is not the same thing.

It -removes- the ability to build firmware into the kernel module -- a 
currently deployed, highly reliable configuration.

I'm not surprised that fact was snipped in David's submission -- 
wouldn't want to mention that you are unconditionally replacing a 
reliable method of firmware loading with a less reliable one.

Building the firmware into the kernel is far less useful than it 
appears:  often users lack the ability to maintain their own vmlinuz 
kernel image build, but do build updated drivers.  e.g. driver disks for 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

IMO the newly added /inability/ to build firmware into kernel modules is 
a clear regression.

	Jeff




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Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in..., Jeff Garzik, (Mon Jul 14, 9:54 pm)
Prosaic firmware issues, Alexey Dobriyan, (Tue Jul 15, 9:11 pm)
Re: Prosaic firmware issues, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Jul 15, 9:45 pm)
Re: Prosaic firmware issues, David Woodhouse, (Wed Jul 16, 1:54 am)
Re: Prosaic firmware issues, Alexey Dobriyan, (Wed Jul 16, 10:19 am)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in..., Henrique de Moraes Holschuh..., (Tue Jul 15, 2:05 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in..., Arjan van de Ven, (Tue Jul 15, 12:04 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in..., Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Tue Jul 15, 1:05 am)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in..., Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Tue Jul 15, 1:15 am)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in..., Arjan van de Ven, (Tue Jul 15, 12:56 am)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied , Oliver Neukum, (Tue Jul 15, 2:23 am)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied , Oliver Neukum, (Tue Jul 15, 12:52 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Tue Jul 15, 4:45 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Wed Jul 16, 5:28 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Thu Jul 17, 4:42 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Thu Jul 17, 6:25 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Tue Jul 15, 7:45 pm)