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

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From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Monday, July 14, 2008 - 7:33 pm

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:

Guys, request_firmware() has been around for about five years now.

If this discussion had happened in 2003, I'd agree.

As it is, I think it's time to just face it - many people do want to have 
a unified interface (and yes, I obviously count myself in that group), and 
you can't just continue do nothing and ignore that.

Your argument seems to be that you don't want to break anything, but 
you've also clearly not wanted to _fix_ anything for the last five years. 

At some point, somebody has to just do it. And five years is _way_ long 
enough.

			Linus
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Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., Arjan van de Ven, (Mon Jul 14, 4:59 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., Linus Torvalds, (Mon Jul 14, 7:33 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., Arjan van de Ven, (Mon Jul 14, 9:56 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Mon Jul 14, 10:05 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., David Woodhouse, (Mon Jul 14, 10:09 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Mon Jul 14, 10:15 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., David Woodhouse, (Mon Jul 14, 10:30 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., David Woodhouse, (Mon Jul 14, 10:32 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., David Woodhouse, (Mon Jul 14, 11:03 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied , Oliver Neukum, (Mon Jul 14, 11:23 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., David Woodhouse, (Tue Jul 15, 12:36 am)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., Arjan van de Ven, (Tue Jul 15, 9:04 am)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied , Oliver Neukum, (Tue Jul 15, 9:52 am)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., Arjan van de Ven, (Tue Jul 15, 10:33 am)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., David Woodhouse, (Tue Jul 15, 10:36 am)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., David Woodhouse, (Tue Jul 15, 10:44 am)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Tue Jul 15, 11:05 am)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., David Woodhouse, (Tue Jul 15, 11:09 am)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., David Woodhouse, (Tue Jul 15, 11:20 am)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., David Woodhouse, (Tue Jul 15, 11:30 am)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., David Woodhouse, (Tue Jul 15, 12:07 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., Marcel Holtmann, (Tue Jul 15, 12:20 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., Marcel Holtmann, (Tue Jul 15, 12:22 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., Marcel Holtmann, (Tue Jul 15, 12:26 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., David Woodhouse, (Tue Jul 15, 12:27 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., Peter T. Breuer, (Tue Jul 15, 12:29 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., Marcel Holtmann, (Tue Jul 15, 12:31 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., David Woodhouse, (Tue Jul 15, 12:36 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., Marcel Holtmann, (Tue Jul 15, 12:39 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., Marcel Holtmann, (Tue Jul 15, 12:44 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., Marcel Holtmann, (Tue Jul 15, 12:54 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., David Woodhouse, (Tue Jul 15, 12:57 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Tue Jul 15, 1:45 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Tue Jul 15, 4:45 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., Sven-Haegar Koch, (Tue Jul 15, 5:55 pm)
Prosaic firmware issues, Alexey Dobriyan, (Tue Jul 15, 6:11 pm)
Re: Prosaic firmware issues, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Jul 15, 6:45 pm)
Re: Prosaic firmware issues, David Woodhouse, (Tue Jul 15, 10:54 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., David Woodhouse, (Wed Jul 16, 12:01 am)
Re: Prosaic firmware issues, Alexey Dobriyan, (Wed Jul 16, 7:19 am)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Wed Jul 16, 2:28 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Thu Jul 17, 1:42 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from ..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Thu Jul 17, 3:25 pm)