Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:04:46 -0400 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. |
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On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:57:46PM -0700, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 12:49 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > So kernel-specific directories do make sense. As does the whole "I > > don't want to handle the pain that is udev scripts". > > I'm not violently opposed to kernel-specific directories. Ubuntu does it > that way already, and it may well make sense. I'm not sure it's really > necessary either, but it's an option.
Some of the wireless drivers have an issue where firmware x works with driver y, so it's useful for that case even if nothing else uses it.
Dave
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