From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755316AbYE3V2y (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2008 17:28:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753571AbYE3V2p (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2008 17:28:45 -0400 Received: from smtp-out003.kontent.com ([81.88.40.217]:52502 "EHLO smtp-out003.kontent.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753415AbYE3V2o (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2008 17:28:44 -0400 From: Oliver Neukum Organization: Novell To: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] kaweth: use request_firmware() Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 23:02:25 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 20070904.708012) Cc: Marcel Holtmann , David Woodhouse , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Michael Zappe , Stephane Alnet , Brad Hards References: <1211708969@pmac.infradead.org> <20080530164842.31b23848@core> In-Reply-To: <20080530164842.31b23848@core> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805302302.27890.oliver@neukum.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am Freitag, 30. Mai 2008 17:48:42 schrieb Alan Cox: > > we tried to not put that policy into the drivers and I was looking > > over this, but in the meantime driver slipped past me and made it in. > > We should not do this at all and if people wanna have this, then they > > should solve this within udev. > > Then you arrived at the party a year too late. The format name/firmware > is commonly used all over the kernel. How that maps to a file or > directory is indeed a matter for udev, but there is already a > heirarchical namespace and pretending otherwise won't help. If that is supposed to be constructed from the driver/file pair, it is a good idea, but would argue against hardcoding it in the source. Regards Oliver