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    SubjectRe: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] RFC: Moving firmware blobs out of the kernel.
    On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:31 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
    > From: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
    > Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 13:55:16 -0700
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    >> 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.

    I agree. I hate to have two klibc (one for 32 bit, and one for 64bit)
    to for initramfs to load FW for qlogic...

    dwmw2 's new patches to put all fw in /firmware, and built them into
    kernel could avoid that...

    and could make the build process to check fw version to match with
    driver in different kernel version later...

    YH


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