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

Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15T19:24:36Z

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> Could you _please_ entertain at least thinking about that option?

.. and the reason I ask you to do that is quite frankly, you seem to want
to just hide the thing under a rug - and _encouraging_ people to not even
try to work with a new and more flexible model.

For example, there's nothing wrong with having people replace their
firmware when they want to. Equally, there's nothing wrong in having
distros put stable firmware into another package, so that you don't need
to have <n> different versions of the firmware in <n> different kernel
module directories just because you have <n> different versions of the
module itself.

So why do you want to work so hard at not just encouraging people to get
the firmware loaded dynamically from the filesystem?

Linus