From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755505AbZDFJKM (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Apr 2009 05:10:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754734AbZDFJJ5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Apr 2009 05:09:57 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:51721 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754696AbZDFJJ5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Apr 2009 05:09:57 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 10:10:26 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Greg KH Cc: David Woodhouse , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Mithlesh Thukral , Christopher Harrer Subject: Re: Staging: sxg: Add support to download the firmware using request_firmware() Message-ID: <20090406101026.04040c13@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090406023349.GA1314@suse.de> References: <200904051919.n35JJUUq031448@hera.kernel.org> <1238978493.11870.2.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20090406010754.GA32630@suse.de> <1238980795.11870.12.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20090406023349.GA1314@suse.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Firmware isn't "crap", it's needed by devices, and I don't see the > problem of distributing it within the kernel tree, especially when the > license of the firmware is just fine, like these files are. For one firmware doesn't tie to the kernel release cycle so any serious distribution has to split the two packages apart even if the kernel community didn't. For a second it keeps a lot of irrelevant, unreviewable enormous hex file changesets *off* the kernel lists and out of the git tree tracking. Alan