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Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:09:26 +0100 From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> To: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@...-linux.org> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] firmware: moving drivers to request_firmware() On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 12:07 +0200, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: > On Thursday 05 June 2008, David Woodhouse wrote: > > Ignoring the set of 'make fw->data const' patches which have mostly > > been already posted and are fairly trivial, this is the current content > > of the firmware tree at git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/firmware-2.6.git > > > > It starts by giving a way to build arbitrary firmware blobs into the > > kernel while letting request_firmware() find them there, and then sets > > about converting drivers to use request_firmware() instead of static > > data blobs, now that we can do that without forcing the users to > > actually satisfy the firmware requests from userspace. > > Will there be a way for userspace to know what firmware file is needed by > which driver? > > So for example geninitrd/mkinitrd will be able to put only required firmware > files into initrd/initramfs (without a need to maintain separate database > with driver <-> firmware file name mapping). We've had that for a long time: MODULE_FIRMWARE(). -- dwmw2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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