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 17:26:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Alexandre Oliva <oliva@....ic.unicamp.br>
cc:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <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, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 
> Hey, how about a config option that turns firwmare files into
> stand-alone kernel modules that register the blob into the
> request_firmware internal list, and MODULE_FIRMWARE into a module
> dependency?

I think that should work fine from a technical angle, and I don't disagree 
per se, but it really is very ugly.

Wouldn't it be much simpler to just require people to have a reasonably 
up-to-date mkinitrd. Apparently it's not available _everywhere_, but if we 
check for this up-front (even if we can apparently only do so at "make 
install" time due to the root requirements), wouldn't that really solve 
the issue with much less work?

			Linus
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