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    SubjectRe: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] RFC: Moving firmware blobs out of the kernel.
    On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:55:16PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
    > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> wrote:
    > > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:29:38PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
    > >> I very much would like to see a kernel-firmware or something tarbal that contains
    > >> a copy of all relevant "freely distributable" firmware, that users can just install
    > >> independent of the actual kernel version (and that kbuild would just pick up somehow).
    > >> That way we can deal with a lot more firmware without having to pollute the kernel / kernel release process
    > >> (after all, the timing is different in terms of releasing) while making it easy
    > >> to get the lot of it.
    > >
    > > There's definitely two schools of thought on this. Sometimes firmware
    > > changes (or adds) an interface. If the kernel driver has to accommodate
    > > new and old firmware, that adds complexity, and we all know that added
    > > complexity means more bugs. So I can definitely see some vendors
    > > wanting to distribute their firmware with the kernel.
    > >
    > driver should check fw version...

    Not all firmware has the ability to check the version :(

    So while Arjan's goal would be nice, Matthew is right, this can't happen
    for all types of firmware.

    thanks,

    greg k-h


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