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From: Divy Le Ray <divy@chelsio.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:27:41 -0700

> In a boot over the network environment, request_firmware() will not be
> granted
> access to the file system.

This is not true, first of all.  It can be built into the kernel image
via CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL.

Second of all, there is initrd.

There are NO EXCUSES for not using request_firmware() at this point.