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

David Miller
2008-07-15T02:41:26Z

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:33:25 -0700 (PDT)

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> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
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> > My complaints are about --not breaking stuff--, not request_firmware().
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> Guys, request_firmware() has been around for about five years now.

Jeff's not against request_firmware() in an of itself.

He's against the fact that it's not possible to build a
self-contained foo.ko module file any longer, and that
would definitely be possible with using request_firmware().