> > Developers: I will NOT accept large patches any more. If you find bugs,
> > go for the one-liner obvious bugfix rather than a rewrite. Due to me
> > being abroad I couldn't work as closely with people on 2.0.1 patches as I
> > need to, but I'm back, and this kind of mega-patch will NOT happen again..
>
> Does this include drivers as we will need to add a fairly large driver
> chunk because the Metricom firmware has changed. That should all be a
> single clean driver not affecting other files.
As the hardware trend seems to be towards downloadable firmware onto
ROM-less cards, it might make sense to encourage associated drivers
to use compressed firmware files in conjunction with lib/inflate.c
at least for those cases where it makes sense to do so.
Here is a case in point:
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foo:/tmp/linux/drivers/net> ls -l dgrs_firmware.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 gpg109 users 579161 Apr 20 18:22 dgrs_firmware.c
foo:/tmp/linux/drivers/net> gzip -cv9 dgrs_firmware.c | wc -c
dgrs_firmware.c: 88.6%
65714
foo:/tmp/linux/drivers/net>
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It is worth noting however that the dgrs driver has the option of not
directly slurping up the firmware into the driver data.
Paul.
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