From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: Jeremy Jackson <jerj@coplanar.net>
Cc: Nick Craig-Wood <ncw1@axis.demon.co.uk>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Preferred way to load non-free firmware
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 17:19:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200303261719.07959.oliver@neukum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1048686722.1248.6.camel@contact.skynet.coplanar.net>
Am Mittwoch, 26. März 2003 14:52 schrieb Jeremy Jackson:
> Check the list archive, there was someone telling about support they
> added for binary blobs in /proc (or was it sysfs?) for this (among
> others) very purpose.
>
> Please don't make the situation any worse. I'd like to have some hope
> that Debian my publish their kernel-source package with a
> linux-x.x.x.tar.bz2 that matches the md5sum of the one on kernel.org
> some day.
I am sure such a patch, if the Debian people would get it into the
mainline kernel, would find its use.
But failing that I see no reason why any coder should jump through
hoops for the nontechnical concerns of any distribution, including Debian.
Using procfs for this is messier than including it in a header file.
Regards
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-26 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-26 1:32 Pavel Roskin
2003-03-26 4:11 ` Greg KH
2003-03-26 10:48 ` Nick Craig-Wood
2003-03-26 12:47 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-03-26 13:52 ` Jeremy Jackson
2003-03-26 16:19 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2003-03-26 10:51 ` Erik Hensema
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.50.0303252007420.6656-100000@marabou.research.a tt.com>
2003-03-27 1:38 ` Max Krasnyansky
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