Re: [PATCH] kaweth: use request_firmware()

[Alan Cox]

> we tried to not put that policy into the drivers and I was looking  
> over this, but in the meantime driver slipped past me and made it in.  
> We should not do this at all and if people wanna have this, then they  
> should solve this within udev.

Then you arrived at the party a year too late. The format name/firmware
is commonly used all over the kernel. How that maps to a file or
directory is indeed a matter for udev, but there is already a
heirarchical namespace and pretending otherwise won't help.

Alan
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