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

Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15T17:46:22Z

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> This is the "I'm too stupid to live" argument. I've already answered that.
> What's so hard with "make firmware_install"?

Btw, that is by no means the only way to handle it either. As I said in
other emails - about trying to find _productive_ questions to answer -
maybe we could also just install it in the modules directory or some
similar per-kernel location, and just teach request_firmware() to load
binary blobs directly.

Then - horror of horrors - we could even make "make modules_install" do
things like that automatically for you with some Makefile rule trickery.

See? There are _productive_ things you can do or ask others to do.

But singing the same "I'm so stupid that I cannot install the firmware"
song over and over again doesn't make me think you are worth listening to.

Linus