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

Chris Adams
2008-07-16T00:21:17Z

Once upon a time, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> said:
>* Red Hat driver disks. The build process is unaware of the need to
>bundle firmware. Any use with Fedora (or, later, RHEL) will result in a
>non-working driver, for the simple reason that firmware is not copied
>onto the image.

Then Red Hat driver disks are already broken, as there are current
modules (e.g. qla2xxx) that require external firmware.

>* Embedded projects like OpenWRT, that divide up kernel modules into
>multiple packages. Since it's not just one big package, you have to
>update each package's list of files to include the newly split-out
>firmwares. Failure to do so results in a successful build set of
>packages... of drivers that lack their firmware.

AFAIK OpenWRT and the like don't just throw in random new kernel
releases without at least reading release notes and testing.
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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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