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

Jeff Garzik
2008-07-15T16:53:50Z

Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> With this change, there are several exceptions where this is not the case,
>> across all driver types -- media, wan, char, net, scsi, ...
>>
>> Package manifests, build scripts and other details MUST be updated, or these
>> drivers will not work as they did in kernels <= 2.6.26.
>
> Umm. I complained six months ago when the e1000e driver took over, and the
> e1000 driver stopped working for me, and you suddenly had to know which
> version of the e1000 you had - even though there was not any sane way to
> tell them apart.
>
> Ingo _still_ complains about that occasionally.
>
> What did you do? You didn't care.

Completely false -- what was the outcome? The breakage complained about
was fixed, we made sure Ingo had proper defconfig entries, the changes
to e1000e were pushed back.

That's a lot of taking-feedback-from-others that you define as "didn't
care."

Jeff