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From: Michael Hunold <hunold@convergence.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Hunold <hunold@linuxtv.org>,
	torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] tda1004x DVB frontend update
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 00:01:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <403A865C.3080508@convergence.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040223225457.A15536@infradead.org>

Hello Christoph,

On 02/23/04 23:54, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 11:47:55PM +0100, Michael Hunold wrote:
> 
>>>Why would the kernel driver want to know the exact path of the firmware file?
>>
>>Because we don't use the in-kernel firmware loader at the moment.
>>
>>The driver comes from a time were 2.4 didn't have the firmware loader 
>>and drivers cloned the firmware loading stuff from one of the soundcard 
>>drivers.

> Sorry, but that's a bad excuse.  It's bogus in 2.4 too (or any given
> kernel).

I cannnot speak against this, I completely agree.

If I personally would use these type of cards, I think I would have 
converted them already.

*sigh* I think I'll step forward and have the first drivers converted to 
in-kernel i2c as soon as possible, so I can coerce the other driver 
authors to use proper firmware loading.

CU
Michael.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-23 23:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-23 21:04 [PATCH 0/9] LinuxTV.org DVB update Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:04 ` [PATCH 1/9] Update the DVB subsystem docs Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:04   ` [PATCH 2/9] Update saa7146 driver core Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:04     ` [PATCH 3/9] Minor DVB Skystar2 updates Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:04       ` [PATCH 4/9] DVB core update Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:04         ` [PATCH 5/9] Misc. DVB frontend updates Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:05           ` [PATCH 6/9] stv0299 DVB frontend update Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:05             ` [PATCH 7/9] tda1004x " Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:05               ` [PATCH 8/9] av7110 DVB driver update Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:05                 ` [PATCH 9/9] TTUSB-Budget " Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:18               ` [PATCH 7/9] tda1004x DVB frontend update Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-23 22:47                 ` Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 22:54                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-23 23:01                     ` Michael Hunold [this message]
2004-02-23 22:09               ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-23 22:52                 ` Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 23:11                   ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-23 23:15                   ` Ralph Metzler
2004-02-24 11:34                   ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-02-23 22:23   ` [PATCH 1/9] Update the DVB subsystem docs Richard B. Johnson
2004-02-23 22:57     ` Michael Hunold

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