linux-kernel - Re: Problems loading firmware using built-in drivers with kernels that use initramfs.

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Message-ID: <20151016210524.GE9528@wotan.suse.de>
Date:	Fri, 16 Oct 2015 23:05:24 +0200
From:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>
To:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Liam Girdwood <liam.r.girdwood@...ux.intel.com>,
	"Jie, Yang" <yang.jie@...el.com>,
	"joonas.lahtinen@...ux.intel.com" <joonas.lahtinen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	yalin wang <yalin.wang2010@...il.com>,
	Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Re: Problems loading firmware using built-in drivers with kernels
 that use initramfs.

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 09:35:12PM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> Arend, curious are you working on this? Me and Julia did some hunting and
> have found quite a bit of users that could use this. I'll provide results
> in another thread but figured I'd follow up to see if anyone is working
> to address this. Otherwise we just have hacks for now.

A lot of things are going on with firmware_class enhancements so lets
jot things down here:

http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects/firmware-class-enhancements

  Luis
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