linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] firmware: Add CONFIG_BUILTIN

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Message-Id: <1211725128.31212.108.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
Date:	Sun, 25 May 2008 15:18:48 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, aoliva@...hat.com,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@...l.com>,
	kay.sievers@...y.org, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] firmware: Add CONFIG_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE option

On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 16:13 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> If Michael wants to serve his firmware blobs from an SQL database,
> he'd use a simple table like this:
> 
> CREATE TABLE firmware (
>         ID INTEGER,
>         name VARCHAR(100),
>         data BLOB
> );

That's fairly much what the in-kernel firmware support does (just
serving firmware from a flat table using the string as a key, that is.
If I tried using SQL in-kernel you should take me out back and shoot me,
of course).

-- 
dwmw2

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