Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 May 2008 14:31:57 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] RFC: Moving firmware blobs out of the kernel. | From | David Miller <> |
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From: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 13:55:16 -0700
> driver should check fw version...
This alone is not a reason to rip the firmware out into a seperate tree. And I am absolutely not convinced that the cases where this matters all universally even use firmware versions.
I've installed the wrong ipw2200 on several occaisions.
Furthermore, it's about distributing what works with what it's meant to work with. With this seperate scheme, I can still link in the wrong firmware file (the driver doesn't check the firmware version until it executes) and the driver won't work. So this moves the validation to run time, which users typically don't appreciate.
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