From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
Michael Zappe <zapman@interlan.net>,
Stephane Alnet <stephane@u-picardie.fr>,
Brad Hards <bhards@bigpond.net.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kaweth: use request_firmware()
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 16:48:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080530164842.31b23848@core> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FD896A2C-277F-45CF-AE26-E2E29DA8093F@holtmann.org>
> we tried to not put that policy into the drivers and I was looking
> over this, but in the meantime driver slipped past me and made it in.
> We should not do this at all and if people wanna have this, then they
> should solve this within udev.
Then you arrived at the party a year too late. The format name/firmware
is commonly used all over the kernel. How that maps to a file or
directory is indeed a matter for udev, but there is already a
heirarchical namespace and pretending otherwise won't help.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-30 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-25 10:23 [PATCHv2 00/28] Allow built-in firmware to be accessed by request_firmware() David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 10:23 ` [PATCHv2 01/28] libertas: treat firmware data as const David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 13:06 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-25 10:23 ` [PATCHv2 02/28] bluetooth: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 13:07 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-25 10:23 ` [PATCHv2 03/28] cyclades: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 13:07 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-25 10:23 ` [PATCHv2 04/28] cx25840: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 10:51 ` Hans Verkuil
2008-05-25 14:36 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 14:56 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 15:04 ` Hans Verkuil
2008-05-25 15:37 ` Mike Isely
2008-05-25 15:20 ` Mike Isely
2008-05-25 16:16 ` Tyler Trafford
2008-05-25 10:23 ` [PATCHv2 05/28] myri10ge: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 10:23 ` [PATCHv2 06/28] vx222: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 10:23 ` [PATCHv2 07/28] riptide: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 10:23 ` [PATCHv2 08/28] pcxhr: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 10:23 ` [PATCHv2 09/28] vx: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 10:23 ` [PATCHv2 10/28] ueagle-atm: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 10:23 ` [PATCHv2 11/28] cxacru: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 10:23 ` [PATCHv2 12/28] aic94xx: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 10:23 ` [PATCHv2 13/28] zd1201: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 10:23 ` [PATCHv2 14/28] rt2x00: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 10:23 ` [PATCHv2 15/28] p54: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 10:23 ` [PATCHv2 16/28] atmel: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 10:23 ` [PATCHv2 17/28] irda-usb: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 10:23 ` [PATCHv2 18/28] cxgb3: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 10:23 ` [PATCHv2 19/28] bt8xx: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 10:23 ` [PATCHv2 20/28] ttusb-dec: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 10:23 ` [PATCHv2 21/28] dvb frontends: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 10:23 ` [PATCHv2 22/28] cxusb: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 14:14 ` Michael Krufky
2008-05-25 14:27 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 15:02 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 10:23 ` [PATCHv2 23/28] gp8psk: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 10:23 ` [PATCHv2 24/28] tuners: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 10:23 ` [PATCHv2 25/28] firmware: make fw->data const David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 10:23 ` [PATCHv2 26/28] firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image David Woodhouse
2008-05-30 5:08 ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-31 8:39 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 10:23 ` [PATCHv2 27/28] firmware: Add CONFIG_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE option David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 17:00 ` [PATCHv3 " David Woodhouse
2008-05-26 8:58 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-28 11:46 ` [PATCHv4 " David Woodhouse
2008-05-29 8:29 ` [PATCH 29/28] firmware: Add 'firmware_install' make target David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 10:23 ` [PATCHv2 28/28] firmware: convert korg1212 driver to use firmware loader exclusively David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 13:11 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-27 18:33 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-05-27 21:24 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-29 9:09 ` [PATCHv2 #ERROR!/28] maestro3: treat firmware data as const David Woodhouse
2008-05-29 10:49 ` [PATCHv2 30/28] firmware: convert maestro3 driver to use firmware loader exclusively David Woodhouse
2008-05-29 12:21 ` [PATCH N/28] ymfpci: treat firmware data as const David Woodhouse
2008-05-29 12:23 ` [PATCH N/28] firmware: convert ymfpci driver to use firmware loader exclusively David Woodhouse
2008-05-29 13:47 ` [PATCH] smctr: use request_firmware() David Woodhouse
2008-05-29 19:30 ` maximilian attems
2008-05-29 21:02 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-29 14:20 ` [PATCH] kaweth: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-30 13:55 ` Oliver Neukum
2008-05-30 15:16 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-30 15:26 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-30 15:48 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-05-30 21:02 ` Oliver Neukum
2008-05-31 0:00 ` Alexandre Oliva
2008-05-31 6:51 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-31 12:35 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-29 17:49 ` [PATCH] ttusb-budget: " David Woodhouse
2008-06-13 19:23 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-30 11:45 ` [PATCH] keyspan: " David Woodhouse
2008-05-30 13:54 ` Hugh Blemings
2008-05-30 12:19 ` [PATCH] keyspan_pda: " David Woodhouse
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