From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754735AbYEYOTO (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2008 10:19:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752456AbYEYOS7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2008 10:18:59 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:35295 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751487AbYEYOS6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2008 10:18:58 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] firmware: Add CONFIG_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE option From: David Woodhouse To: Johannes Berg Cc: Marcel Holtmann , Michael Buesch , Sam Ravnborg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aoliva@redhat.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Abhay Salunke , kay.sievers@vrfy.org, Takashi Iwai In-Reply-To: <1211724803.17151.36.camel@johannes.berg> References: <1211550282.28967.8.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <1211707837.17151.14.camel@johannes.berg> <95BCF0F0-755A-4501-9B44-B421AD3E8F42@holtmann.org> <200805251405.05684.mb@bu3sch.de> <09817CD9-2158-4EC3-8AB4-17BBAF34A8DA@holtmann.org> <1211724803.17151.36.camel@johannes.berg> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 15:18:48 +0100 Message-Id: <1211725128.31212.108.camel@shinybook.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 Sun, 2008-05-25 at 16:13 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > If Michael wants to serve his firmware blobs from an SQL database, > he'd use a simple table like this: > > CREATE TABLE firmware ( > ID INTEGER, > name VARCHAR(100), > data BLOB > ); That's fairly much what the in-kernel firmware support does (just serving firmware from a flat table using the string as a key, that is. If I tried using SQL in-kernel you should take me out back and shoot me, of course). -- dwmw2