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

From: david
Date: Tue Jul 15 2008 - 18:51:20 EST


On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, David Woodhouse wrote:

On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 15:24 -0700, david@xxxxxxx wrote:

Why is it suddenly so important that a kernel be 'zero impact' for that
module case, when it's never been zero impact for that case before? You
had to rewrite the initrd to begin with, but now you're not willing to do
it again, just because you have to rewrite it slightly _differently_?

becouse the tools that wrote the initrd already put the modules in. I
don't maintain those tools, they came with the distro. we're just asking
to not require those tools to be updated immediatly.

The tools that write the initrd already put the firmware in too.

not always, as Jeff showed.

David Lang
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