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

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To: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@...>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...>, Willy Tarreau <w@...>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, <alan@...>, <linux-kernel@...>
Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 - 8:26 pm

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

I think that should work fine from a technical angle, and I don't disagree 
per se, but it really is very ugly.

Wouldn't it be much simpler to just require people to have a reasonably 
up-to-date mkinitrd. Apparently it's not available _everywhere_, but if we 
check for this up-front (even if we can apparently only do so at "make 
install" time due to the root requirements), wouldn't that really solve 
the issue with much less work?

			Linus
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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..., Arjan van de Ven, (Tue Jul 15, 12:04 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in..., Linus Torvalds, (Tue Jul 15, 8:26 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)
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