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

david
2008-07-15T05:38:14Z

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 07:06 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>> This is just a matter of point of view. From my POV, having to feed
>> several unrelated files into a system to be able to get it to support
>> any device is moving backwards, compared to the currently clean
>> all-in-1 driver model.
>
> So you disapprove of having to load mac80211.ko before your wireless NIC
> driver? Or sungem_phy.ko before sungem.ko? Or libphy.ko before various
> other drivers?
>
> Or having to install /sbin/modprobe before you can load modules?

I actually have systems that don't have modprobe (Tivo series 1 boxes,
they have the insmod/rmmod binary , but not modproble)