From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964896AbWH1X4S (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:56:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964920AbWH1X4S (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:56:18 -0400 Received: from stat9.steeleye.com ([209.192.50.41]:13726 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964896AbWH1X4R (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:56:17 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] MODULE_FIRMWARE for binary firmware(s) From: James Bottomley To: Oleg Verych Cc: linux-kernel , Sven Luther , debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, Greg KH In-Reply-To: <44F38BCE.2080108@flower.upol.cz> References: <1156802900.3465.30.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <1156803102.3465.34.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <20060828230452.GA4393@powerlinux.fr> <44F38BCE.2080108@flower.upol.cz> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:55:43 -0500 Message-Id: <1156809344.3465.41.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-4.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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