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

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Message-ID: <20080715103352.4a47419e@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:33:52 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, jeff@...zik.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.

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:36:56 +0200
Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl> wrote:

> On Tuesday 15 July 2008, you wrote:
> > > You release 2.6.27-rc2 and I build it. Ouch! It fails to install,
> > > at least if I want to install it _alongside_ 2.6.27-rc1 or other
> > > kernels (which I do!). Why does it fail? Because dpkg's package
> > > management does not allow one package to overwrite files already
> > > "owned" by another package.
> >
> > question: how do you deal with this with the dozens of drivers that
> > use request_firmware() even before yesterday ?
> > the answer is critical in how to deal with this "new" situation as
> > well ;-)
> 
> For Debian packages that's in the part of the mail you snipped.
> 
> The simple answer for my current use of dep-pkg is: I don't _have_
> any hardware that requires firmware that's split out with current
> kernels.

... and do you have any with current -git ?


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