From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aoliva@redhat.com,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com>,
kay.sievers@vrfy.org, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] firmware: Add CONFIG_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE option
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 15:45:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200805251545.25516.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <09817CD9-2158-4EC3-8AB4-17BBAF34A8DA@holtmann.org>
On Sunday 25 May 2008 15:19:37 Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> this should all be done in userspace and not inside the kernel. Export
> the special device versions via struct device and stop being lazy.
No. Wait. It's not exactly going to work this way.
You're not going to break my ABI and then tell me I'm going to work around
that, right? Answer: No.
b43 will use the slash in request_firmware. That is not going to change.
This is _exactly_ what users are so tired about. Every now and then people
decide to change some ABI.
--
Greetings Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-25 13:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-23 13:44 [PATCH 1/3] firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 2/3] firmware: Add CONFIG_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE option David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 13:50 ` [PATCH 2/3] firmware: convert korg1212 driver to use firmware loader exclusively David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 14:56 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-05-23 14:59 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 16:41 ` [PATCH 2/3] firmware: Add CONFIG_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE option Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-23 17:13 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 18:07 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 18:11 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-24 14:46 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-24 15:22 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-24 15:25 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-24 15:34 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-24 18:18 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-24 19:23 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-24 19:31 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 9:30 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 9:49 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 11:54 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 12:14 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 13:16 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-25 13:46 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 18:07 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 11:49 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 11:59 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 13:12 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 13:40 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 18:12 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 18:18 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 18:28 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-26 8:57 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 12:05 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 13:19 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 13:45 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2008-05-25 18:15 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 18:27 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 18:34 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 14:13 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 14:18 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 14:22 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 18:23 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 18:39 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 18:46 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 18:53 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 19:03 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 19:21 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-26 8:52 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 17:17 ` Alexandre Oliva
2008-05-25 18:49 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 19:53 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-26 3:30 ` Alexandre Oliva
2008-05-25 18:49 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 19:01 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 19:09 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-26 3:13 ` Alexandre Oliva
2008-05-26 12:53 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-26 13:08 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-26 17:09 ` Alexandre Oliva
2008-05-26 17:11 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-23 14:53 ` [PATCH 1/3] firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image Takashi Iwai
2008-05-23 14:58 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 15:19 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-05-23 15:25 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 15:33 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 17:21 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 19:14 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 19:42 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 20:31 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 21:04 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 23:28 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 14:56 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 15:11 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 15:00 ` Clemens Ladisch
2008-05-23 15:20 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 15:32 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 16:21 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-23 16:37 ` David Dillow
2008-05-23 16:38 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-05-23 16:44 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-23 16:53 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-23 17:06 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 17:49 ` David Woodhouse
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