From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751394AbWG2TFT (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:05:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751414AbWG2TFT (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:05:19 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.171]:40993 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751394AbWG2TFS (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:05:18 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=rFoqvCOiz4QB2r1k1elWayQFlOfm7jbLxwxLQ+X1DXB4t9mtl75L32yw0W6yjQEB2+KWetgg6raA6JfJLs/YGzP09yrRlNeCWNsV6qy1+IMFEfgP74kRDE6UdpTbJaOD801xO8/leg5SPWBFNBHsw6YNBOlo8opodqmTnFEOyCU= Message-ID: <35fb2e590607291205m6fd44a40tf34d391ec6afc9a8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:05:16 +0100 From: "Jon Masters" To: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] MODULE_FIRMWARE for binary firmware(s) In-Reply-To: <20060418234156.GA28346@apogee.jonmasters.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060418234156.GA28346@apogee.jonmasters.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 3531519759f0127a Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 4/19/06, Jon Masters wrote: > The attached patch introduces MODULE_FIRMWARE as a mechanism for > advertising that a particular firmware file is to be loaded - it will > then show up via modinfo and could be used e.g. when packaging a kernel. I (and several others who met at OLS) would really like for this to get upstream. Can you sling that one line patch (will forward again) into -mm please? Jon.