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

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From: david
Date: Monday, July 14, 2008 - 10:34 pm

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, David Woodhouse wrote:


and when a card gets hotplugged into the system for a driver that's 
already in memory handling other cards you intend that it will have to go 
out to userspace to find the firmware?

how much memory are you expecting to save this way?

David Lang
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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 ..., 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, (Mon Jul 14, 10:34 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)