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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807151216430.3351@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:18:27 -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, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> But without firmware-in-module this would be akin to adding kernel module
> support in version 1.0.1, and forcing all distros to fix their stuff
> immediately in order to upgrade from version 1.0.0.
You're just making that up. The distro's can fix it long before they use
the kernel.
And the users we can just fix by making request_firmware() look up the
files itself, if it doesn't already.
You're just making up your bogus arguments.
Linus
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