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 13:17:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
cc:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.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, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> 
> So Ubuntu will obviously not break since it does this already. For
> Fedora deploying new packages for 8 and 9 should not be a problem at all
> once the maintainer is convinced that it is a good idea. They update
> packages all the time anyway. For the other distros, I don't know.

Umm. Again, Marcel. We don't require new user land to work.

But just loading the thing on our own does solve this problem. But udev we 
simply cannot require people to magically have a new version of.

		Linus
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