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

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Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@...>, Frans Pop <elendil@...>, <arjan@...>, <akpm@...>, <dwmw2@...>, <alan@...>, <linux-kernel@...>
Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 - 7:02 pm

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 04:55:45PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

 > No, I spelled out a list of projects, what would break, and how it would 
 > break.
 > 
 > Again,
 > 
 > * Red Hat driver disks.  The build process is unaware of the need to 
 > bundle firmware.  Any use with Fedora (or, later, RHEL) will result in a 
 > non-working driver, for the simple reason that firmware is not copied 
 > onto the image.

For old RHEL - they won't support 2.6.27, so moot.
For next-gen RHEL - they need fixing anyway.
For Fedora, they don't (and hopefully won't) exist.

	Dave

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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..., Dave Jones, (Tue Jul 15, 7:02 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)
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Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied , Oliver Neukum, (Tue Jul 15, 12:52 pm)
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