Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 May 2003 11:04:59 +1000 | From | David Gibson <> | Subject | Re: airo and firmware upload (was Re: 2.6 must-fix list, v3) |
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On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 04:38:26PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Jean Tourrilhes <jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com> wrote: > > > > firmwares blobs > > well for the purposes of tracking 2.6 activities I'll separate this issue > of firmware access policy out from drivers/net/wireless/. > > yeah, it would be nice if the core kernel provided a "give me my firmware" > API or something.
Well, Manuel Estrada (also author of the orinoco USB patches) has proposed one on lkml. Doesn't look like people were happy with that version, but I think he's still working on revising it based on feedback.
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