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

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Date:	Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:33:32 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	david@...g.hm, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Woodhouse <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.

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Can't you see that changing build processes takes time?  Fixing driver disk
>> creation tools take time?  Validating that each driver is packaged with its
>> correct firmware takes time?
> 
> Umm. Can't you see that if we don't start doing it, it will never get done 
> AT ALL?
> 
> Yes, this will take time.

Which, by implication, means that userland is not -already- prepared.

Which means that if you don't have a recent userland of a mainstream 
distro, the result is non-working drivers.

Which is the type of regression I thought we did not want.

> But that's not an argument for not merging it. Quite the reverse.

This is not an either/or proposition, and that is what you are missing.

The change should go in _while at the same time_ not creating regressions.

The change is not the problem.

That the change exists without the ability to recreate similar outputs 
(i.e. firmware in module) is the problem.

	Jeff

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