linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/18] firmware: moving drivers to request

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Date:	Sat, 31 May 2008 23:45:14 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] firmware: moving drivers to request_firmware()

On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 18:39 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> IMO, if-and-only-if you are touching driver firmwares, you should not do 
> anything but render them into their preferred form.
> 
> It is useless churn that increases maintenance annoyances to convert an 
> in-tree firmware to something other than the form it's in now, so you 
> might as well get it right.

I believe that making that change would cause extra controversy that I
don't need, and make it harder for me to get what I _actually_ care
about merged -- which is the basic conversion to request_firmware().

But as I said, if _you_ want to start converting drivers and posting
patches which add raw binary blobs in the firmware/ directory, please
feel free. If they go in without comment, I'll be happy to admit that I
was wrong and start doing raw binaries in future.

-- 
dwmw2

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