Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kaweth: use request_firmware() | Date | Fri, 30 May 2008 23:02:25 +0200 |
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Am Freitag, 30. Mai 2008 17:48:42 schrieb Alan Cox: > > 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.
If that is supposed to be constructed from the driver/file pair, it is a good idea, but would argue against hardcoding it in the source.
Regards Oliver
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