From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758281AbYEYTWa (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2008 15:22:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757260AbYEYTWW (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2008 15:22:22 -0400 Received: from vs166246.vserver.de ([62.75.166.246]:39405 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757236AbYEYTWV (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2008 15:22:21 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: Marcel Holtmann Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] firmware: Add CONFIG_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE option Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 21:21:53 +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> <200805252053.36854.mb@bu3sch.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805252121.54375.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 21:03:56 Marcel Holtmann wrote: > > How are you going to handle multiple versions of the firmware for > > one driver? > > How does one switch between versions (changing config files is not > > acceptable)? > > that is your point of view. Why is changing a config file not > acceptable? Because I need to change between different versions of firmware every few minutes while developing on firmware level. Besides that the driver must be allowed to tell whether it wants to have one or the other version of the firmware (see my previous mail). So this must not be a userspace-only policy. -- Greetings Michael.