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

Jeff Garzik
2008-07-15T18:34:09Z

Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Can't you see that changing build processes takes time? Fixing driver disk
>> creation tools take time? Validating that each driver is packaged with its
>> correct firmware takes time?
>
> Umm. Can't you see that if we don't start doing it, it will never get done
> AT ALL?
>
> Yes, this will take time.

Which, by implication, means that userland is not -already- prepared.

Which means that if you don't have a recent userland of a mainstream
distro, the result is non-working drivers.

Which is the type of regression I thought we did not want.

> But that's not an argument for not merging it. Quite the reverse.

This is not an either/or proposition, and that is what you are missing.

The change should go in _while at the same time_ not creating regressions.

The change is not the problem.

That the change exists without the ability to recreate similar outputs
(i.e. firmware in module) is the problem.

Jeff