From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262072AbUBWXDL (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:03:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262088AbUBWXDJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:03:09 -0500 Received: from mail.convergence.de ([212.84.236.4]:52354 "EHLO mail.convergence.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262072AbUBWXCA (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:02:00 -0500 Message-ID: <403A865C.3080508@convergence.de> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 00:01:48 +0100 From: Michael Hunold User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040208) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: Michael Hunold , torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] tda1004x DVB frontend update References: <10775702831806@convergence.de> <10775702843054@convergence.de> <20040223211844.A14186@infradead.org> <403A831B.7040307@convergence.de> <20040223225457.A15536@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20040223225457.A15536@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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.