Re: [PATCH 00/18] firmware: moving drivers to request_firmware()

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>]

On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 12:07 +0200, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> On Thursday 05 June 2008, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > Ignoring the set of 'make fw->data const' patches which have mostly
> > been already posted and are fairly trivial, this is the current content
> > of the firmware tree at git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/firmware-2.6.git
> >
> > It starts by giving a way to build arbitrary firmware blobs into the
> > kernel while letting request_firmware() find them there, and then sets
> > about converting drivers to use request_firmware() instead of static
> > data blobs, now that we can do that without forcing the users to
> > actually  satisfy the firmware requests from userspace.
> 
> Will there be a way for userspace to know what firmware file is needed by 
> which driver? 
> 
> So for example geninitrd/mkinitrd will be able to put only required firmware 
> files into initrd/initramfs (without a need to maintain separate database 
> with driver <-> firmware file name mapping).

We've had that for a long time: MODULE_FIRMWARE().

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