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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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  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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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