Re: [PATCH 1/3] firmware: allow firmware files to be built intokernel image

[David Woodhouse]

On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 16:33 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Yeah, I thought about that. I was slightly concerned that drivers might
> > actually try to _modify_ the firmware they loaded, though. As it is,
> > there's no fundamental reason why they shouldn't do that.
> 
> I've not seen any that do and judicious use of "const" should catch
> offenders.

Makes sense. I'll do that as the first patch of the sequence.

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dwmw2

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