From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>,
debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MODULE_FIRMWARE for binary firmware(s)
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:55:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1156809344.3465.41.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44F38BCE.2080108@flower.upol.cz>
On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 02:35 +0200, Oleg Verych wrote:
> request_firmware() is dead also.
> YMMV, but three years, and there are still big chunks of binary in kernel.
> And please don't add new useless info _in_ it.
I er don't think so.
We (as in the Kernel) are forcing drivers on to this path. You should
have noticed it already with the qla2xxx. The aic94xx is the first
driver that's likely found as the boot driver for a system, that's why I
get to propose the reference implementation.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-28 23:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-28 22:08 James Bottomley
2006-08-28 22:11 ` James Bottomley
2006-08-28 23:04 ` Sven Luther
2006-08-28 23:50 ` James Bottomley
2006-08-29 0:35 ` Oleg Verych
2006-08-28 23:55 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2006-08-29 2:15 ` Oleg Verych
[not found] ` <20060829015103.GA28162@kroah.com>
[not found] ` <20060829031430.GA9820@flower.upol.cz>
2006-08-29 2:49 ` Greg KH
2006-08-29 4:19 ` Oleg Verych
2006-08-29 15:46 ` David Lang
2006-08-29 18:32 ` Greg KH
2006-08-29 19:04 ` Michael Buesch
2006-08-29 20:13 ` Olaf Hering
2006-08-29 20:42 ` David Lang
2006-08-29 20:52 ` Greg KH
2006-08-30 5:44 ` Olaf Hering
2006-08-30 17:52 ` David Lang
2006-08-30 18:13 ` Sven Luther
2006-08-30 18:20 ` David Lang
2006-08-30 19:15 ` Sven Luther
2006-08-30 19:34 ` David Lang
2006-08-30 20:57 ` Sven Luther
2006-08-30 21:11 ` David Lang
2006-08-31 1:16 ` Jim Crilly
2006-09-15 19:48 ` Olaf Hering
2006-08-29 16:30 ` Michael Buesch
2006-08-29 13:13 ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-08-29 20:16 ` Greg KH
2006-08-30 13:49 ` Marcel Holtmann
[not found] <6OXsW-4pW-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <6Peat-82q-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <6PgFh-53l-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <6Ph8l-61I-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-08-29 22:10 ` Bodo Eggert
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-04-18 23:41 Jon Masters
2006-04-18 23:01 ` David Lang
2006-04-19 0:15 ` Jon Masters
2006-04-18 23:41 ` David Lang
2006-04-19 1:07 ` Jon Masters
2006-04-19 9:07 ` Duncan Sands
2006-04-19 12:41 ` Jon Masters
2006-04-19 15:32 ` Duncan Sands
2006-04-19 15:45 ` Jon Masters
2006-07-29 19:05 ` Jon Masters
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