linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir

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Date:	Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:01:09 -0700
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, jeffm@...e.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 17:49 +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Thursday 11 September 2008, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 17:24 +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> > > Did you read the second part of the mail explaining why having a
> > > single "firmware" package is not a good idea?
> >
> > Yes, but it was nonsense, so I ignored it. "The reason for this is the
> > possibility that a driver and its firmware may be dropped from the
> > upstream kernel source." That doesn't happen very often, and you
> > _certainly_ don't need to immediately drop the firmware if it does.
> 
> Fine. Again you are concentrating on the bright and shiny future and 
> magically wishing into existence tools to support the new situation.

No, the 'new' situation is just like the situation we've had for years
for most recent drivers anyway.

You've pulled this magic requirement that we split up firmware into
separate packages out of a hat, and it's nonsense. Please go away and
stop spreading FUD. If there _are_ real issues to deal with, I'd like to
deal with them. I believe I already have. But we'd be better off without
the pointless noise that some people are creating.

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@...el.com                              Intel Corporation

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