Re: [PATCH 2/3] firmware: Add CONFIG_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE option

From: Michael Buesch
Date: Sun May 25 2008 - 09:46:01 EST


On Sunday 25 May 2008 15:19:37 Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> this should all be done in userspace and not inside the kernel. Export
> the special device versions via struct device and stop being lazy.

No. Wait. It's not exactly going to work this way.
You're not going to break my ABI and then tell me I'm going to work around
that, right? Answer: No.

b43 will use the slash in request_firmware. That is not going to change.

This is _exactly_ what users are so tired about. Every now and then people
decide to change some ABI.

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Greetings Michael.
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