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

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Why don't you just take the kernel-supplied firmware and make it part of 
> the kernel package? The same way the kernel-supplied modules are part of 
> it?

And, btw, if there is something we can do to help, we obviously should.

So ask yourself (and DavidW) things like

 - Is "make firmware_install" not enough for the package build system?

 - Does it need some other way to figure out what firmware is needed for 
   just the configured set of drivers, eg "make firmware_list"?

 - Do we need to make the firmware loader have multiple directories it 
   looks at? Do we want first a kernel-version-specific one, then a 
   generic fallback one, so that we can easily have per-kernel firmware, 
   the same way we have per-kernel modules?

 - Add your interesting question here.

There are obviously all these kinds of _productive_ questions you can ask. 
But people seem to be mostly in an unproductive "Mommy, it hurts when I do 
something stupid" mode.

			Linus
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