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

Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15T20:18:17Z

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
>
> So Ubuntu will obviously not break since it does this already. For
> Fedora deploying new packages for 8 and 9 should not be a problem at all
> once the maintainer is convinced that it is a good idea. They update
> packages all the time anyway. For the other distros, I don't know.

Umm. Again, Marcel. We don't require new user land to work.

But just loading the thing on our own does solve this problem. But udev we
simply cannot require people to magically have a new version of.

Linus