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Message-Id: <1216098939.7740.57.camel@pasglop>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:15:39 +1000
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: rene.herman@...access.nl, david@...g.hm,
torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, arjan@...radead.org,
akpm@...ux-foundation.org, dwmw2@...radead.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.
>
> Thanks for proving something I tried to establish for weeks
> but which Alan Cox, David W., and others vehemently denied.
>
> They states that it was being done on a technical basis rather
> than being predominantly a legal one.
Despite the risk of going against the current here, I do like David
patches for one major reason: I love my kernels with everything
built-in, that's how I can netboot them etc... without having to bother
with installing modules.
David's patches allow me to do that with drivers that would have
-required- disk based firmwares beforehand. It allows things like
rooting off a block device that needs a firmware without an initrd,
etc....
As long as the firmwares are shipped with the kernel tree, I'm happpy,
and I don't care much about building the firmware inside the .ko's. Now,
if somebody care, I suppose it's a feature that can be added fairly
transparently.
Cheers,
Ben.
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