Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:53:53 -0700 | From | "Yinghai Lu" <> | Subject | Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. |
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On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:47 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote: > 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.
so after this patchset, if i put qllogic fw in firmware/, that fw will work or not...
YH
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