linux-kernel - Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers.

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Message-Id: <1216079223.27455.92.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:47:03 -0700
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from
	in-kernel, use it in more drivers.

On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 16:41 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:23:26 -0700
> David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> wrote:
> 
> > Linus, please pull from the for-2.6.27 branch of:
> > 	git://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/firmware-2.6.git for-2.6.27
> 
> The firmware flamewars seem to have subsided lately.  Is everyone happy
> with this now?

I've deliberately left drivers/net out of this pull request... all
_other_ maintainers seemed quite happy to see their drivers updated to
use request_firmware().

Let's see how it pans out. I don't expect any problems -- after all,
modern drivers have been using request_firmware() for a _long_ time now,
and the distributions cope quite happily with it already. We're ready to
ship the firmware in a separate package in Fedora as soon as Linus pulls
from my tree. Once the dust has settled and it's all working fine, we
can look at converting drivers/net and drivers/scsi too.

-- 
dwmw2

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