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

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Date:	Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:35:26 +0200
From:	Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	debian-kernel@...ts.debian.org, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject:  Re: [PATCH] MODULE_FIRMWARE for binary firmware(s)

Sven Luther wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 05:11:42PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
 >
>>I've tested this with the aic94xx driver using the new MODULE_FIRMWARE()
>>tag.  Initramfs should be much easier because it already includes most
>>of the boot time loading; all it has to do is the piece identifying the
>>firmware for the selected modules.
...
> Notice that mkinitrd-tools is dead, and will probably be removed from etch.
> 
request_firmware() is dead also.
YMMV, but three years, and there are still big chunks of binary in kernel.
And please don't add new useless info _in_ it.

Nobody cares.
While this implementation exists, it wasn't well designed and hard to use.
As with in-kernel bootsplash and i18n, everything maybe done in userspace, only
with little help from the kernel:
<http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/435955>.

Thanks.

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