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

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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...>, Frans Pop <elendil@...>, <jeff@...>, <arjan@...>, <akpm@...>, <alan@...>, <linux-kernel@...>
Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 - 3:57 pm

On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 12:49 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

I'm not violently opposed to kernel-specific directories. Ubuntu does it
that way already, and it may well make sense. I'm not sure it's really
necessary either, but it's an option.

Unless we really are going to make the kernel open files for itself,
though, I think it's too early for us to think about making that change
in the kernel. We'd need userspace to cope with it that way _first_.

(When I say 'in the kernel', I think the only place this 'policy' is yet
implemented is the default for $(INSTALL_FW_PATH) in modules_install and
firmware_install make targets, right?)

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Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in..., David Woodhouse, (Tue Jul 15, 3:57 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)
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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)