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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:56:34 -0700 (PDT) From: david@...g.hm To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> cc: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jeff@...zik.org, arjan@...radead.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, dwmw2@...radead.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, david@...g.hm wrote: >> >> has a standard been defined for how to maintain different versions of firmware >> for different versions of drivers yet? > > No. We haven't had that possibility, probably largely because we haven't > even really had the ability (Davem and Jeff talk about "choice" and how > request_firmware() supposedly removes it, but they ignore the fact that it > very much cuts the other way too - request_firmware() _adds_ choice and > makes it easier for people to try to upgrade firmware without upgrading > the kernel). and they aren't objecting to this choice being added. they just want to keep the choice of working the other way (although they implicitly are saying that they won't be doing a lot of testing of different firmware versions becouse they do want to work the other way) David Lang -- 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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