Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:15:39 +1000 |
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> > 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.
Despite the risk of going against the current here, I do like David patches for one major reason: I love my kernels with everything built-in, that's how I can netboot them etc... without having to bother with installing modules.
David's patches allow me to do that with drivers that would have -required- disk based firmwares beforehand. It allows things like rooting off a block device that needs a firmware without an initrd, etc....
As long as the firmwares are shipped with the kernel tree, I'm happpy, and I don't care much about building the firmware inside the .ko's. Now, if somebody care, I suppose it's a feature that can be added fairly transparently.
Cheers, Ben.
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