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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:06:06 -0700 (PDT) From: david@...g.hm To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.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 Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:41:19 -0700 > Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote: > >> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:23:26 -0700 >> David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> wrote: >> >>> Linus, please pull from the for-2.6.27 branch of: >>> git://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/firmware-2.6.git >>> for-2.6.27 >> >> The firmware flamewars seem to have subsided lately. Is everyone >> happy with this now? >> > > this seems to have left the contentious pieces out.... almost, the one thing that this could have done would be to offer an option to bundle the firmware with the module. currently it offers the option to load the firmware at the same time as the module, not _quite_ the same thing. there was also the issue that was raised about how to handle firmware during suspend/resume. I don't remember seeing a happy solution to that one. 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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