From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: mainline aic94xx firmware woes Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:33:04 +0100 Message-ID: <1159183984.11049.59.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20060925101124.GH6374@rhun.haifa.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:1001 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751135AbWIYLI0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:08:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20060925101124.GH6374@rhun.haifa.ibm.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Muli Ben-Yehuda Cc: James Bottomley , linux-scsi , Linux-Kernel Ar Llu, 2006-09-25 am 13:11 +0300, ysgrifennodd Muli Ben-Yehuda: > that includes firmware support to load the firmware. Will a patch to > optionally include the firmware inline in the kernel and thus not > having to use an initramfs be acceptable? We should not be including non-free firmware in the kernel, we should be continuing to drive it out into things like initramfs. > Also, aic94xx does not compile unless FW_LOADER is set in .config due > to missing 'request_firmware'. What's the right thing to do here - > aic94xx selecting it, depending on it Either select or depend Alan