Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:33:32 -0700 (PDT) | From | david@lang ... | Subject | Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. |
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On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Frans Pop wrote: >> >> So, how is this solved by Debian for already existing firmware packages? >> Basically by making a separate package for each firmware file (or >> driver). This works because there are not too many of them, but having a >> huge number of tiny packages is a nightmare by itself. > > Why don't you just take the kernel-supplied firmware and make it part of > the kernel package? The same way the kernel-supplied modules are part of > it?
David W has made it very clear that the eventual intent of this patch series is to remove all firmware from the kernel tree and have it shipped as a seperate package.
David Lang
> You're sounding like > > "Mommy, mommy, it hurts when I repeatedly hit my head against the wall > and stick forks in my eyes!" > > and quite frankly, it doesn't make me go "Oh, poor baby" at all. > > Linus > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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