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

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From: Alexandre Oliva
Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 - 5:10 pm

On Jul 15, 2008, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:



Hey, how about a config option that turns firwmare files into
stand-alone kernel modules that register the blob into the
request_firmware internal list, and MODULE_FIRMWARE into a module
dependency?

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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 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 ..., Alexandre Oliva, (Tue Jul 15, 5:10 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)