From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jaswinder@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ip2: use request_firmware()
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:05:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4856C795.2050007@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4856C6C8.6060506@garzik.org>
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Except for the part where the firmware is pointlessly separated from the
> driver.
...in the kernel source tree, I mean.
No objection to extracting the firmware from the driver.
Driver maintenance will be more of a pain if we have most of a driver
<here> in the tree, except for that one crucial piece hiding over <there>.
There is no reason why firmware must be artificially separated into
firmware/
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-16 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-16 9:49 [PATCH] ip2: use request_firmware() David Woodhouse
2008-06-16 10:59 ` Alan Cox
2008-06-16 12:06 ` David Woodhouse
2008-06-16 20:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-06-16 19:56 ` Alan Cox
2008-06-16 20:05 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2008-06-16 19:58 ` Alan Cox
2008-06-16 20:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-06-16 20:21 ` Alan Cox
2008-06-16 21:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-06-16 21:34 ` Alan Cox
2008-06-16 22:01 ` David Woodhouse
2008-06-16 20:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-06-16 20:00 ` Alan Cox
2008-06-16 20:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-06-16 20:21 ` Alan Cox
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