Re: [PATCH] kaweth: use request_firmware()

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Fri May 30 2008 - 17:28:54 EST


Am Freitag, 30. Mai 2008 17:48:42 schrieb 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.

If that is supposed to be constructed from the driver/file pair,
it is a good idea, but would argue against hardcoding it in the source.

Regards
Oliver
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