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

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Message-ID: <487D441B.5010908@garzik.org>
Date:	Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:43:07 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>, david@...g.hm,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.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.

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 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.

Yes, that's part of the problem :/

Everybody seems to love rolling their own stuff in this area, partly 
necessitated I suppose by the wide variety of ways to boot on various 
platforms.

	Jeff




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