Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:30:57 -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, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > > so request_firmware() is well established and works. It is used by a > bunch of drivers at the moment.
That's not the question.
The question is whether it works with the *new* users.
Which it would apparently NOT do for everybody if we put the new drivers in any other place than /lib/firmware, very much including a kernel- specific subdirectory there.
Linus
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