Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:47:03 -0700 |
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On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 16:41 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:23:26 -0700 > David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote: > > > Linus, please pull from the for-2.6.27 branch of: > > git://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/firmware-2.6.git for-2.6.27 > > The firmware flamewars seem to have subsided lately. Is everyone happy > with this now?
I've deliberately left drivers/net out of this pull request... all _other_ maintainers seemed quite happy to see their drivers updated to use request_firmware().
Let's see how it pans out. I don't expect any problems -- after all, modern drivers have been using request_firmware() for a _long_ time now, and the distributions cope quite happily with it already. We're ready to ship the firmware in a separate package in Fedora as soon as Linus pulls from my tree. Once the dust has settled and it's all working fine, we can look at converting drivers/net and drivers/scsi too.
-- dwmw2
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