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

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Jul 15 2008 - 16:18:19 EST




On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
>
> So Ubuntu will obviously not break since it does this already. For
> Fedora deploying new packages for 8 and 9 should not be a problem at all
> once the maintainer is convinced that it is a good idea. They update
> packages all the time anyway. For the other distros, I don't know.

Umm. Again, Marcel. We don't require new user land to work.

But just loading the thing on our own does solve this problem. But udev we
simply cannot require people to magically have a new version of.

Linus
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