From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756106AbYEYNqA (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2008 09:46:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753368AbYEYNpw (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2008 09:45:52 -0400 Received: from vs166246.vserver.de ([62.75.166.246]:57921 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753176AbYEYNpv (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2008 09:45:51 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: Marcel Holtmann Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] firmware: Add CONFIG_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE option Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 15:45:24 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) Cc: Johannes Berg , David Woodhouse , Sam Ravnborg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aoliva@redhat.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Abhay Salunke , kay.sievers@vrfy.org, Takashi Iwai References: <1211550282.28967.8.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <200805251405.05684.mb@bu3sch.de> <09817CD9-2158-4EC3-8AB4-17BBAF34A8DA@holtmann.org> In-Reply-To: <09817CD9-2158-4EC3-8AB4-17BBAF34A8DA@holtmann.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805251545.25516.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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.