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

Alexandre Oliva
2008-07-16T00:13:17Z

On Jul 15, 2008, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 07:06 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>> This is just a matter of point of view. From my POV, having to feed
>> several unrelated files into a system to be able to get it to support
>> any device is moving backwards, compared to the currently clean
>> all-in-1 driver model.

> So you disapprove of having to load mac80211.ko before your wireless NIC
> driver? Or sungem_phy.ko before sungem.ko? Or libphy.ko before various
> other drivers?

Hey, how about a config option that turns firwmare files into
stand-alone kernel modules that register the blob into the
request_firmware internal list, and MODULE_FIRMWARE into a module
dependency?

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