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.1.10.0807151726520.2867@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:28:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
cc:	david@...g.hm, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, 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 Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Frans Pop wrote:
> 
> Where did you get this strange notion that mkinitrd is the _only_ (your 
> emphasis) thing people use?

Heh. Maybe from the fact that I don't personally use modules or initrd at 
all, and have no interest in doing so ;)

Ok, so people use other things. Grr. I guess we can't just require updated 
tools, because we don't know what the tools are.

			Linus
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