From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 11:08:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 11:08:00 -0500 Received: from Mail1.KONTENT.De ([81.88.34.36]:46521 "EHLO Mail1.KONTENT.De") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 11:07:59 -0500 From: Oliver Neukum Reply-To: oliver@neukum.name To: Jeremy Jackson Subject: Re: Preferred way to load non-free firmware Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 17:19:07 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: Nick Craig-Wood , Greg KH , Pavel Roskin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200303261347.27137.oliver@neukum.org> <1048686722.1248.6.camel@contact.skynet.coplanar.net> In-Reply-To: <1048686722.1248.6.camel@contact.skynet.coplanar.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200303261719.07959.oliver@neukum.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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