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    SubjectRe: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers.
    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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