| lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
|
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 20:15:13 +0200 From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org> To: Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, 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 Hi Michael, >> this should all be done in userspace and not inside the kernel. >> Export >> the special device versions via struct device and stop being lazy. > > No. Wait. It's not exactly going to work this way. > You're not going to break my ABI and then tell me I'm going to work > around > that, right? Answer: No. > > b43 will use the slash in request_firmware. That is not going to > change. > > This is _exactly_ what users are so tired about. Every now and then > people > decide to change some ABI. don't give me that crap. Nobody plans to break everything just right now and leave people hanging in between. We will do a smooth transition. Your users won't even notice it. And we change the API/ABI all the time. Get used to it. Regards Marcel -- 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/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists