Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel,use it in more drivers.

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Jul 15 2008 - 13:44:11 EST




On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Already addressed -- you and David seem to be ignoring the common case where
> you may update the driver but not the kernel, making that feature far less
> useful than it appears.

This is the "I'm too stupid to live" argument. I've already answered that.
What's so hard with "make firmware_install"?

Linus
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