Re: [PATCH 00/04] Load keyspan firmware with hotplug

Dmitry Torokhov
2005-04-05T04:51:20Z

On Monday 04 April 2005 23:23, Jan Harkes wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:17:46PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:27:53PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > Mmm, probably that 2001 discussion about the keyspan firmware, right ?
> > >
> > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/04/msg00145.html
> > >
> > > Can you summarize the conclusion of the thread, or what you did get from it,
> > > please ?
> >
> > That people didn't like the inclusion of firmware, I posted how you can
> > fix it by moving it outside of the kernel, and asked for patches.
> >
> > None have come.
>
> Didn't know you were waiting for it. How about something like the
> following series of patches?
>
> [01/04] - add simple Intel IHEX format parser to the firmware loader.

Firmware loader is format-agnostic, I think having IHEX parser in a separate
file would be better...

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Dmitry