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

David Woodhouse
2008-07-14T23:47:21Z

On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 16:41 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:23:26 -0700
> David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> > Linus, please pull from the for-2.6.27 branch of:
> > git://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/firmware-2.6.git for-2.6.27
>
> The firmware flamewars seem to have subsided lately. Is everyone happy
> with this now?

I've deliberately left drivers/net out of this pull request... all
_other_ maintainers seemed quite happy to see their drivers updated to
use request_firmware().

Let's see how it pans out. I don't expect any problems -- after all,
modern drivers have been using request_firmware() for a _long_ time now,
and the distributions cope quite happily with it already. We're ready to
ship the firmware in a separate package in Fedora as soon as Linus pulls
from my tree. Once the dust has settled and it's all working fine, we
can look at converting drivers/net and drivers/scsi too.

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dwmw2