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

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807151042170.3017@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:45:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
cc:	david@...g.hm, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Woodhouse <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, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> This is the "I'm too stupid to live" argument. I've already answered that. 
> What's so hard with "make firmware_install"?

Btw, that is by no means the only way to handle it either. As I said in 
other emails - about trying to find _productive_ questions to answer - 
maybe we could also just install it in the modules directory or some 
similar per-kernel location, and just teach request_firmware() to load 
binary blobs directly.

Then - horror of horrors - we could even make "make modules_install" do 
things like that automatically for you with some Makefile rule trickery.

See? There are _productive_ things you can do or ask others to do.

But singing the same "I'm so stupid that I cannot install the firmware" 
song over and over again doesn't make me think you are worth listening to.

			Linus
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