From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aoliva@redhat.com,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com>,
kay.sievers@vrfy.org, Haroldo Gamal <gamal@alternex.com.br>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 15:58:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1211554711.28967.25.camel@pmac.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5hbq2xul4s.wl%tiwai@suse.de>
On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 16:53 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> This looks like a nice cleanup. It'd be nicer if we can skip vmalloc
> and duplication of the image for static binaries.
Yeah, I thought about that. I was slightly concerned that drivers might
actually try to _modify_ the firmware they loaded, though. As it is,
there's no fundamental reason why they shouldn't do that.
If we're willing to declare that drivers mustn't write to the firmware
data, then we could do as you suggest.
> BTW, is the dependency considered? FW_LOADER depends on HOTPLUG, and
> the static loader shouldn't depend on HOTPLUG.
Ah, good point; I'll take a closer look at that. Thanks.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-23 14:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-23 13:44 David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 2/3] firmware: Add CONFIG_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE option David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 13:50 ` [PATCH 2/3] firmware: convert korg1212 driver to use firmware loader exclusively David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 14:56 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-05-23 14:59 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 16:41 ` [PATCH 2/3] firmware: Add CONFIG_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE option Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-23 17:13 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 18:07 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 18:11 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-24 14:46 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-24 15:22 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-24 15:25 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-24 15:34 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-24 18:18 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-24 19:23 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-24 19:31 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 9:30 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 9:49 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 11:54 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 12:14 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 13:16 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-25 13:46 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 18:07 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 11:49 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 11:59 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 13:12 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 13:40 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 18:12 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 18:18 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 18:28 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-26 8:57 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 12:05 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 13:19 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 13:45 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 18:15 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 18:27 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 18:34 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 14:13 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 14:18 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 14:22 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 18:23 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 18:39 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 18:46 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 18:53 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 19:03 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 19:21 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-26 8:52 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 17:17 ` Alexandre Oliva
2008-05-25 18:49 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 19:53 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-26 3:30 ` Alexandre Oliva
2008-05-25 18:49 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 19:01 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 19:09 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-26 3:13 ` Alexandre Oliva
2008-05-26 12:53 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-26 13:08 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-26 17:09 ` Alexandre Oliva
2008-05-26 17:11 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-23 14:53 ` [PATCH 1/3] firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image Takashi Iwai
2008-05-23 14:58 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2008-05-23 15:19 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-05-23 15:25 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 15:33 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 17:21 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 19:14 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 19:42 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 20:31 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 21:04 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 23:28 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 14:56 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 15:11 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 15:00 ` Clemens Ladisch
2008-05-23 15:20 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 15:32 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 16:21 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-23 16:37 ` David Dillow
2008-05-23 16:38 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-05-23 16:44 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-23 16:53 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-23 17:06 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 17:49 ` David Woodhouse
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