From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jaswinder@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ip2: use request_firmware()
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:21:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4856CB61.6030202@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080616205820.1fe298d7@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Alan Cox wrote:
>> There is no reason why firmware must be artificially separated into
>> firmware/
>
> It seems a good step towards kicking it all out of the kernel tree into
> user space where it belongs.
Why does that goal need a toplevel directory in the kernel source tree,
one that ultimately must mirror the other hierarchies already in the tree?
It's better to have drivers/char/ip2.ihex and keep everything related to
a single driver in one place.
Extracting the firmware: good
Scattering a /single/ driver across multiple directories in the kernel
tree: bad
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-16 20:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-16 9:49 David Woodhouse
2008-06-16 10:59 ` Alan Cox
2008-06-16 12:06 ` David Woodhouse
2008-06-16 20:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-06-16 19:56 ` Alan Cox
2008-06-16 20:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-06-16 19:58 ` Alan Cox
2008-06-16 20:21 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2008-06-16 20:21 ` Alan Cox
2008-06-16 21:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-06-16 21:34 ` Alan Cox
2008-06-16 22:01 ` David Woodhouse
2008-06-16 20:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-06-16 20:00 ` Alan Cox
2008-06-16 20:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-06-16 20:21 ` Alan Cox
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