From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755109AbYEZNJz (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 09:09:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751280AbYEZNJr (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 09:09:47 -0400 Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:34012 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751074AbYEZNJq (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 09:09:46 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] firmware: Add CONFIG_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE option From: Johannes Berg To: Michael Buesch Cc: Alexandre Oliva , Marcel Holtmann , David Woodhouse , Sam Ravnborg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Abhay Salunke , kay.sievers@vrfy.org, Takashi Iwai In-Reply-To: <200805261453.01658.mb@bu3sch.de> References: <1211550282.28967.8.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <200805252049.39731.mb@bu3sch.de> <200805261453.01658.mb@bu3sch.de> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-yY3dO/OzeRqN+n5LXQge" Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 15:08:32 +0200 Message-Id: <1211807312.4843.2.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.1.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-yY3dO/OzeRqN+n5LXQge Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > This doesn't make any sense. Either it is a filename/pathname, or it is n= ot. I still think that in the kernel it shouldn't be thought of as a filename and I have not yet seen any real reason why it has to be. Whether your userspace then uses it as a filename or not is pretty much orthogonal, it currently does for great effect, and since the only firmware loader currently is userspace, we tend to think of it as a filename in the kernel too. However, when building firmware into the kernel, this will no longer be true, it'll be a simple key in an array. johannes --=-yY3dO/OzeRqN+n5LXQge Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iQIVAwUASDq2TqVg1VMiehFYAQIVzQ/+IKqG0lkrC8OmnD3aB9shpXjNSU/Qoci7 6XhJDTpIzaoXf3lmuHwHsxAp99a7PJI8bNuIkqR61pAMHqs1aZpCgokujzQ9IjTy yrI+SN3/8P8QR1nuQh6PrqMufz3ixC6bLqw9neHDxJCtjo0udIBIcWThEKRqyslr q23No5siTYTjyF2s5kX0RemFW991NvWZzPvoGIHeX8A4amuwMV8A+uy9GJESu2p+ H1f4anrFjU2WYR0Vkg3yXbu95XD78qZ8naC3pOSKmUs4DHbNz8ogIlOTUVWKghN2 ID8WDSSl//n35TqWUjtOhyNJQzRqB5NJKInLcTSZ7nYE3765r/tEVSDgUHiARQWB ZPhd+2UWz/AxHTuwGjUiaOE6Z1R0OHd8PeWWYC1dc44jWnOBaGyTxyRVY4A3qvL8 sH8T6pdMMq6l6KmZMAGSr5eF05gPZL05znUNhbHTphV16/MdU5GMydHZKXCooGs+ CMdX4GH6pfrBwjDOpm72VYO3lguJamufqM9Jg9s3+xTV2J5b1q1U7yApkz0/Aszm VdA8KkwhEXiEyx1dpllpIQGVOGw35CUiofn3uhrDnKX9IiKR4wwPyxewPUUfwi5W taOprcaNS8mkflDPltpk6Nnw8q6rfR8uq6gF7CAnBXt5+FIzVp4N3Z+xF4NjSASh F/II0Vku/yA= =pkka -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-yY3dO/OzeRqN+n5LXQge--