Re: [PATCH] advansys: use request_firmware

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Mon Jul 14 2008 - 11:22:49 EST


On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 09:15 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Something I'd like to get rid of in the driver is the decompression
> of the firmware files. I don't think AdvLoadMicrocode() should have
> a custom decompresser built into it. Do your future plans include the
> ability to gzip the data and transparently decompress it when the
> driver calls request_firmware()?

It's something we'd thought about, certainly.

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