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

David Woodhouse
2008-07-15T05:09:33Z

On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 21:56 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:45:57 -0700 (PDT)
> David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
>
> > From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> > Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:39:03 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> > > Put this way: if you do a distro, you _need_ to support firmware
> > > loading anyway. And once you do that, it's just annoying how some
> > > drivers then do something odd and special for the same thing, for
> > > no real good reason.
> >
> > In what way is it annoying?
> >
> > Most distribution people aren't even aware that drivers like tg3 and
> > bnx2 even have firmware. In fact it's self contained and less for
> > them to worry about.
>
> and.. after this patch that still seems to be the case, unless I'm
> looking at it really cross eyed.
> Nothing in this patch makes it impossible to do so.. or changes the
> drivers you mention.

Well, the HEAD of my tree (and linux-next) does change tg3. I just
haven't asked Linus to pull that part, because I wanted to keep the
contentious part separate from the simple and obvious parts.

(Even though the tg3 fix _is_ simple and obvious, to me. But that
evidently doesn't stop it from being contentious too. So it can wait.)

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