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

Jeff Garzik
2008-07-16T00:43:27Z

Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Frans Pop wrote:
>> Where did you get this strange notion that mkinitrd is the _only_ (your
>> emphasis) thing people use?
>
> Heh. Maybe from the fact that I don't personally use modules or initrd at
> all, and have no interest in doing so ;)
>
> Ok, so people use other things. Grr. I guess we can't just require updated
> tools, because we don't know what the tools are.

Yes, that's part of the problem :/

Everybody seems to love rolling their own stuff in this area, partly
necessitated I suppose by the wide variety of ways to boot on various
platforms.

Jeff