From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 22:40:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 22:39:52 -0400 Received: from aslan.scsiguy.com ([63.229.232.106]:11530 "EHLO aslan.scsiguy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 22:39:42 -0400 Message-Id: <200106230238.f5N2cNU82518@aslan.scsiguy.com> To: "J . A . Magallon" cc: Keith Owens , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Cleanup kbuild for aic7xxx In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 23 Jun 2001 03:20:47 +0200." <20010623032047.A14928@werewolf.able.es> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 20:38:23 -0600 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >It is easier than that. Nobody should be rebuilding the firmware apart >from driver mantainers. The aic7xxx driver used to be this way. It hid the fact that the aic7xxx driver was completely open source and that anyone could take the code, improve it, or build custom behavior from it. Firmware tweaks are often the only way to achieve certain behavior. For example, a real time system may want to embed certain types of recovery behavior in the firmware to reduce recovery latencies. The power of Linux and OpenSource systems in is that everything is provided so you can make the system what you need, not what was spoon fed to you. -- Justin