Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers.

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Could you _please_ entertain at least thinking about that option?

.. and the reason I ask you to do that is quite frankly, you seem to want 
to just hide the thing under a rug - and _encouraging_ people to not even 
try to work with a new and more flexible model.

For example, there's nothing wrong with having people replace their 
firmware when they want to. Equally, there's nothing wrong in having 
distros put stable firmware into another package, so that you don't need 
to have <n> different versions of the firmware in <n> different kernel 
module directories just because you have <n> different versions of the 
module itself.

So why do you want to work so hard at not just encouraging people to get 
the firmware loaded dynamically from the filesystem?

		Linus