From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750858AbWDSBH6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:07:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750855AbWDSBH6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:07:58 -0400 Received: from pproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.166.180]:61788 "EHLO pproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750834AbWDSBH5 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:07:57 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Q5lPeAwbgJkY+jMi4NZwNUPtJyDb8T6LnK41i5bFgv4UpKlOr9w5/Es6Su5ImirC+CJer6wNCdvA4GxTpP6ZbbH3nDDpY0gvzG4Ql51YJsyP53aELV85EVHdEzC+JWRfmnrAc5UKzn6SDIHBDtMRMkpYS4HL1WlGdT7yM7+F8QM= Message-ID: <35fb2e590604181807x44ab9631m98cd0aa464d40658@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 02:07:57 +0100 From: "Jon Masters" To: "David Lang" Subject: Re: [PATCH] MODULE_FIRMWARE for binary firmware(s) Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060418234156.GA28346@apogee.jonmasters.org> <35fb2e590604181715o5c381407ya80bdc3beedc5b68@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 4/19/06, David Lang wrote: > 2. I thought I heard Linus state recently that makeing something only work > as a module was unacceptable, officially stateing that modules are > required and monolithic kernels aren't allowed anymore doesn't sound > reasonable. It works fine with or without modules - it's just that if you don't have the module then you have to supply the firmware for yourself. It's just like any of the other MODULE_ tags. Jon.