Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:24:25 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:23:14 +0200
> On 15-07-08 03:52, David Miller wrote: > > > From: david@lang.hm Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:51:37 -0700 (PDT) > > > >> I agree with this, but the proponents of the seperate firmware are > >> listing the fact that the firmware doesn't tie up ram as one of the > >> big reasons for making the change. > > > > Exactly. > > > > Otherwise these firmware changes are utterly pointless. > > The point of them is legal.
Thanks for proving something I tried to establish for weeks but which Alan Cox, David W., and others vehemently denied.
They states that it was being done on a technical basis rather than being predominantly a legal one.
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