From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756613AbYGOQWL (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:22:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752515AbYGOQV6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:21:58 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:56968 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752430AbYGOQV5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:21:57 -0400 Subject: Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. From: David Woodhouse To: Linus Torvalds Cc: david@lang.hm, Willy Tarreau , David Miller , jeff@garzik.org, arjan@infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <487C09EB.1050903@garzik.org> <20080714.194032.117461306.davem@davemloft.net> <20080715045848.GG1369@1wt.eu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:21:20 -0700 Message-Id: <1216138880.27455.262.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2 (2.22.2-2.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 Tue, 2008-07-15 at 09:01 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > (I don't think we have source for more than one or two cases). We don't. As part of the cleanup I've been trying to document what we know about the origins of the firmware, in the firmware/WHENCE file. Unfortunately, mostly that's just "unknown". We have managed to dig out the original source for one or two hex arrays though. -- dwmw2