From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755623AbYE3QD3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2008 12:03:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752957AbYE3QDT (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2008 12:03:19 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:56495 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752060AbYE3QDS (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2008 12:03:18 -0400 Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 16:48:42 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Marcel Holtmann Cc: David Woodhouse , Oliver Neukum , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Michael Zappe , Stephane Alnet , Brad Hards Subject: Re: [PATCH] kaweth: use request_firmware() Message-ID: <20080530164842.31b23848@core> In-Reply-To: References: <1211708969@pmac.infradead.org> <1212070841.26088.28.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <200805301555.59327.oliver@neukum.org> <1212160598.8199.6.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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