From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
kernel-janitors <kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>,
kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] advansys: use request_firmware
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:22:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1216048936.27455.38.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080714151543.GE14894@parisc-linux.org>
On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 09:15 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Something I'd like to get rid of in the driver is the decompression
> of the firmware files. I don't think AdvLoadMicrocode() should have
> a custom decompresser built into it. Do your future plans include the
> ability to gzip the data and transparently decompress it when the
> driver calls request_firmware()?
It's something we'd thought about, certainly.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-14 15:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-11 9:58 Jaswinder Singh
2008-07-12 16:29 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-12 17:09 ` Jaswinder Singh
2008-07-14 14:50 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-14 14:56 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-14 15:15 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-14 15:22 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2008-12-20 15:25 Jaswinder Singh
2008-12-20 15:32 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-12-20 16:02 ` Jaswinder Singh
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