Re: [PATCH 00/18] firmware: moving drivers to request_firmware()

[Jeff Garzik]

David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 18:11 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Thus, if you are going to be touching the in-tree firmwares at all, it 
> > doesn't make sense to convert from C source to any format other than 
> > native binary.
>
> I disagree. But feel free to post patches which get applied and prove me
> wrong. I'm not going to object if you want to go convert a few more
> drivers.

IMO, if-and-only-if you are touching driver firmwares, you should not do 
anything but render them into their preferred form.

It is useless churn that increases maintenance annoyances to convert an 
in-tree firmware to something other than the form it's in now, so you 
might as well get it right.

	Jeff


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