linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] advansys: use request

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Message-Id: <1216048936.27455.38.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:22:16 -0700
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
Cc:	Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@...radead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	kernel-janitors <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@...linux.org>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, hch@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] advansys: use request_firmware

On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 09:15 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Something I'd like to get rid of in the driver is the decompression
> of the firmware files.  I don't think AdvLoadMicrocode() should have
> a custom decompresser built into it.  Do your future plans include the
> ability to gzip the data and transparently decompress it when the
> driver calls request_firmware()?

It's something we'd thought about, certainly.

-- 
dwmw2

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