Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:27:59 -0700 (PDT) | From | david@lang ... | Subject | Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. |
| |
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Marcel Holtmann wrote: >> >> you don't have to. We extend udev once and then it will always work. > > Umm. The thing is, people running new kernels with old user land is not > just supposed to work, it's _really_ supposed to work. > > It's what I do. Something that breaks that has to have damn good reasons > to break it. > > So I do not disagree with Jeff on that point _at_all_. I'm in violent > agreement with Jeff on the fact that we should not require system updates > for the kernel to do the right thing. > > The thing I disagree with Jeff on is that he then seems to turn that into > something very negative ("let's not separate the firmware at all").
he's not saying not to seperate the firmware at all, he's asking for the _option_ of compiling a kernel that doesn't have the firmware seperate from the modules.
a kernel compiled with this option would just drop-in to an older distro with zero impact. newer distros that have updated their userspace tools could compile with different options and have the firmware seperate.
David Lang
| |