Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:35:56 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | 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: > > 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?
And, btw, if there is something we can do to help, we obviously should.
So ask yourself (and DavidW) things like
- Is "make firmware_install" not enough for the package build system?
- Does it need some other way to figure out what firmware is needed for just the configured set of drivers, eg "make firmware_list"?
- Do we need to make the firmware loader have multiple directories it looks at? Do we want first a kernel-version-specific one, then a generic fallback one, so that we can easily have per-kernel firmware, the same way we have per-kernel modules?
- Add your interesting question here.
There are obviously all these kinds of _productive_ questions you can ask. But people seem to be mostly in an unproductive "Mommy, it hurts when I do something stupid" mode.
Linus
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