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

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Date:	Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:49:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
cc:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>, jeff@...zik.org,
	arjan@...radead.org, akpm@...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 Tue, 15 Jul 2008, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> I'm unconvinced that the kernel should be setting this kind of policy.

I do think it should probably be conditional, but I think that's true of 
udevd itself too, so hey, it cuts both ways.

> But I suppose if you make it tunable in sysfs and just switch to calling
> do_filp_open() directly from firmware_class.c instead of punting to
> userspace, that might work.

Yup. And then you can disable it either statically (config option) or by 
writing an invalid path into /proc/sys/kernel/firmware-dir or whatever.

Or you can just decide that if you find something in the kernel-specific 
firmware directory, then it should always take precedence over whatever 
udev rules. Which sounds good to me anyway.

Maybe you really do have some very kernel-specific issue (ie you're trying 
a new driver that can handle a new experimental firmware, but you don't 
want your old fall-back kernels to use it because you just fixed the bug 
that makes it work again).

Requiring you to write udevd scripts for that sounds insane. I wouldn't 
even know where to start.

So kernel-specific directories do make sense. As does the whole "I don't 
want to handle the pain that is udev scripts".

			Linus
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