Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 May 2008 16:48:42 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kaweth: use request_firmware() |
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> we tried to not put that policy into the drivers and I was looking > over this, but in the meantime driver slipped past me and made it in. > We should not do this at all and if people wanna have this, then they > should solve this within udev.
Then you arrived at the party a year too late. The format name/firmware is commonly used all over the kernel. How that maps to a file or directory is indeed a matter for udev, but there is already a heirarchical namespace and pretending otherwise won't help.
Alan
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