From: David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: jt@hpl.hp.com, jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com, jgarzik@pobox.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, breed@almaden.ibm.com,
achirica@ttd.net, jkmaline@cc.hut.fi
Subject: Re: airo and firmware upload (was Re: 2.6 must-fix list, v3)
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 11:04:59 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030515010459.GC23670@zax> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030514163826.6459cd93.akpm@digeo.com>
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 04:38:26PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jean Tourrilhes <jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com> wrote:
> >
> > firmwares blobs
>
> well for the purposes of tracking 2.6 activities I'll separate this issue
> of firmware access policy out from drivers/net/wireless/.
>
> yeah, it would be nice if the core kernel provided a "give me my firmware"
> API or something.
Well, Manuel Estrada (also author of the orinoco USB patches) has
proposed one on lkml. Doesn't look like people were happy with that
version, but I think he's still working on revising it based on
feedback.
--
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david@gibson.dropbear.id.au | solution which is simple, neat and
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-15 0:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-14 21:12 2.6 must-fix list, v3 Jean Tourrilhes
2003-05-14 22:06 ` airo and firmware upload (was Re: 2.6 must-fix list, v3) Jeff Garzik
2003-05-14 23:32 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2003-05-14 23:38 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-15 1:04 ` David Gibson [this message]
2003-05-16 7:27 ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-14 23:43 ` Dave Jones
2003-05-14 23:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-15 0:59 ` Jouni Malinen
2003-05-15 2:20 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2003-05-15 6:16 ` James Morris
2003-05-15 1:02 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2003-05-15 4:21 ` CryptoAPI and WEP/stream ciphers (was: airo and firmware upload) Jouni Malinen
2003-05-15 6:04 ` James Morris
2003-05-15 0:55 ` airo and firmware upload (was Re: 2.6 must-fix list, v3) Jean Tourrilhes
2003-05-15 7:13 ` Greg KH
2003-05-15 17:24 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2003-05-15 17:46 ` Greg KH
2003-05-15 19:55 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2003-05-15 20:10 ` Greg KH
2003-05-17 16:58 ` 2.6 must-fix list, v3 Pavel Machek
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