From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757096Ab2DZPst (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:48:49 -0400 Received: from opensource.wolfsonmicro.com ([80.75.67.52]:35861 "EHLO opensource.wolfsonmicro.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751729Ab2DZPss (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:48:48 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:48:45 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Greg KH Cc: George Nychis , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: what determines how firmware is loaded? (Q. on request_firmware details) Message-ID: <20120426154844.GL3207@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> References: <20120423212144.GA3378@kroah.com> <20120423225603.GA23276@kroah.com> <20120426152310.GB26692@sirena.org.uk> <20120426152742.GB15674@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="j3olVFx0FsM75XyV" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120426152742.GB15674@kroah.com> X-Cookie: Your aim is high and to the right. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --j3olVFx0FsM75XyV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 08:27:42AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 04:23:10PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > Unfortunately 3.0 is what ICS is based off so the overwhelming majority > > of vendor code is going to be based on it until the next Android > > release. With my vendor hat on I have to say that we find our upstream > > first policy extremely effective so we shouldn't be part of the issue. > That's great, and understandable, but the original poster said they were > using an old Ubuntu release, and the ability for the community to > support bugs in older kernel releases like this is very difficult as you > well know. Oh, I missed that bit of the thread - if they're using a desktop distro=20 then upgrading should be much less painful than it would be with a typical vendor kernel. > The next Android release should be "any day now" so hopefully we move on > from 3.0 soon... Well, by the end of the summer or something - even when the release drops there's always lag while the releases propagate out to the wider market. --j3olVFx0FsM75XyV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJPmW4fAAoJEBus8iNuMP3diJYP/0Vl4uoxedvF/YmRPzEvgy5C Gam1o3cJVPiiVkM40D4zCvx/iwKINTTJRY/ZvwkumU0CLbh0QNMTpMMbxI2wewDV 2dBUo+VxcPSwyUTayo3WWt79bmnsmS1DhxfK8iI+nFzWeHhZkA0XjUZSNvBmHo2R Gvry/GtyIDqlrWanTh93gr7gfNsQkSOq3OsiPJhhwZVjfjxwUDEK26ltlrnT70NY L63/8yVVLSEyKTKRZt2zMfoA20dXz5X2x5CeDx8HJZ8QNfBrIYuPds1yQlQgt117 3aK/BcU4tpluPjFvvWCXEoWWAjVyNwWu5dBZNVv9d4AmxVbjsEWh6uf8xvHRh/uq PKQ62YJTU3KcLOO895pt2a0rlLxZ2UJwpN6e+FpChwHB44TnCaycHwXfYyhOV8hF xrg6AVg1/5ipng4lpR2iFsAgO8Q9Io70PIFgpEVKJxQ+ZLkBI6137qZZd4G7TeN+ rIFFkIeYhORnkoBgnBWv4zD0vuC08b7s7l2t3nIcYFZgj0Nn3gNZKgMwYjntF7lh A7DVVeFpmyuNQhNfKUQcXquR/4aU1iQ7UDLIkVmEp49gNeetF2XJfXha+GRhoL0Y FxWHY1UJtlms1lxRxzzKjCaluYR8Yz2jiQoNLzOGVruwTI7H37ptRLtHZ1XiCbbo zmm4shx9v1I8IebCV3hB =kFV/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --j3olVFx0FsM75XyV--