Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:43:07 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Frans Pop wrote: >> Where did you get this strange notion that mkinitrd is the _only_ (your >> emphasis) thing people use? > > Heh. Maybe from the fact that I don't personally use modules or initrd at > all, and have no interest in doing so ;) > > Ok, so people use other things. Grr. I guess we can't just require updated > tools, because we don't know what the tools are.
Yes, that's part of the problem :/
Everybody seems to love rolling their own stuff in this area, partly necessitated I suppose by the wide variety of ways to boot on various platforms.
Jeff
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