linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MODULE_FIRMWARE for binary firmware(s)

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Message-ID: <35fb2e590607291205m6fd44a40tf34d391ec6afc9a8@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:05:16 +0100
From:	"Jon Masters" <jonathan@...masters.org>
To:	akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MODULE_FIRMWARE for binary firmware(s)

On 4/19/06, Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org> wrote:

> The attached patch introduces MODULE_FIRMWARE as a mechanism for
> advertising that a particular firmware file is to be loaded - it will
> then show up via modinfo and could be used e.g. when packaging a kernel.

I (and several others who met at OLS) would really like for this to
get upstream. Can you sling that one line patch (will forward again)
into -mm please?

Jon.
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