Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers.

David Woodhouse
2008-07-15T19:58:50Z

On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 12:49 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So kernel-specific directories do make sense. As does the whole "I
> don't want to handle the pain that is udev scripts".

I'm not violently opposed to kernel-specific directories. Ubuntu does it
that way already, and it may well make sense. I'm not sure it's really
necessary either, but it's an option.

Unless we really are going to make the kernel open files for itself,
though, I think it's too early for us to think about making that change
in the kernel. We'd need userspace to cope with it that way _first_.

(When I say 'in the kernel', I think the only place this 'policy' is yet
implemented is the default for $(INSTALL_FW_PATH) in modules_install and
firmware_install make targets, right?)

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dwmw2