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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