Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:42:32 -0700 |
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On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 14:47 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> > Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:24:21 -0700 > > > Kernel 2.6.15 with ancient userland. You update to 2.6.16, which > > includes commit 5433383e ('convert qla2xxx to request_firmware()'). > > > > Same problem? > > For the record I did get burnt by that one and I did make a huge stink > about it. > > I used to be able to avoid initrd entirely on every single one of my > boxes, even my machines with qla2xxx based root filesystems, and that > changeset basically meant the end of that.
Until now. The only significant _generic_ change that just went into Linus' kernel is the fact that you can now build that firmware _into_ your kernel, and you can boot qla2xxx without an initrd again.
HTH.
-- dwmw2
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