From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754014AbYEWRWH (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2008 13:22:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751979AbYEWRVz (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2008 13:21:55 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:53266 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752659AbYEWRVy (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2008 13:21:54 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image From: David Woodhouse To: Alan Cox Cc: Takashi Iwai , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aoliva@redhat.com, Abhay Salunke , kay.sievers@vrfy.org, Haroldo Gamal In-Reply-To: <20080523163303.492c89e4@core> References: <1211550282.28967.8.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <1211554711.28967.25.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080523163303.492c89e4@core> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 18:21:48 +0100 Message-Id: <1211563308.28967.55.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.1 (2.22.1-2.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 16:33 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > 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. > > I've not seen any that do and judicious use of "const" should catch > offenders. Makes sense. I'll do that as the first patch of the sequence. -- dwmw2