From: Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: debian-kernel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MODULE_FIRMWARE for binary firmware(s)
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 04:15:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44F3A355.6090408@flower.upol.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1156809344.3465.41.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com>
James Bottomley wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 02:35 +0200, Oleg Verych wrote:
>
>>request_firmware() is dead also.
>>YMMV, but three years, and there are still big chunks of binary in kernel.
>>And please don't add new useless info _in_ it.
>
>
> I er don't think so.
>
Hell, what can be as easy as this:
,-
|modprobe $drv
|(dd </lib/firmware/$drv.bin>/dev/blobs && echo OK) || echo Error
`-
where /dev/blobs is similar to /dev/port or even /dev/null char device.
if synchronization is needed, add `echo $drv >/dev/blobs`, remove modprobe,
>
> James
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-29 1:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-28 22:08 [PATCH] MODULE_FIRMWARE for binary firmware(s) James Bottomley
2006-08-28 22:11 ` James Bottomley
2006-08-28 23:04 ` Sven Luther
2006-08-28 23:50 ` James Bottomley
2006-08-29 0:35 ` Oleg Verych
2006-08-28 23:55 ` James Bottomley
2006-08-29 2:15 ` Oleg Verych [this message]
[not found] ` <20060829015103.GA28162@kroah.com>
[not found] ` <20060829031430.GA9820@flower.upol.cz>
2006-08-29 2:49 ` Greg KH
2006-08-29 4:19 ` Oleg Verych
2006-08-29 15:46 ` David Lang
2006-08-29 18:32 ` Greg KH
2006-08-29 19:04 ` Michael Buesch
2006-08-29 20:13 ` Olaf Hering
2006-08-29 20:42 ` David Lang
2006-08-29 20:52 ` Greg KH
2006-08-30 5:44 ` Olaf Hering
2006-08-30 17:52 ` David Lang
2006-08-30 18:13 ` Sven Luther
2006-08-30 18:20 ` David Lang
2006-08-30 19:15 ` Sven Luther
2006-08-30 19:34 ` David Lang
2006-08-30 20:57 ` Sven Luther
2006-08-30 21:11 ` David Lang
2006-08-31 1:16 ` Jim Crilly
2006-09-15 19:48 ` Olaf Hering
2006-08-29 16:30 ` Michael Buesch
2006-08-29 13:13 ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-08-29 20:16 ` Greg KH
2006-08-30 13:49 ` Marcel Holtmann
[not found] <6OXsW-4pW-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <6Peat-82q-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <6PgFh-53l-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <6Ph8l-61I-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-08-29 22:10 ` Bodo Eggert
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2006-04-18 23:41 Jon Masters
2006-04-18 23:01 ` David Lang
2006-04-19 0:15 ` Jon Masters
2006-04-18 23:41 ` David Lang
2006-04-19 1:07 ` Jon Masters
2006-04-19 9:07 ` Duncan Sands
2006-04-19 12:41 ` Jon Masters
2006-04-19 15:32 ` Duncan Sands
2006-04-19 15:45 ` Jon Masters
2006-07-29 19:05 ` Jon Masters
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