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

[Jeff Garzik]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > With this change, there are several exceptions where this is not the case,
> > across all driver types -- media, wan, char, net, scsi, ...
> >
> > Package manifests, build scripts and other details MUST be updated, or these
> > drivers will not work as they did in kernels <= 2.6.26.
>
> Umm. I complained six months ago when the e1000e driver took over, and the 
> e1000 driver stopped working for me, and you suddenly had to know which 
> version of the e1000 you had - even though there was not any sane way to 
> tell them apart.
>
> Ingo _still_ complains about that occasionally.
>
> What did you do? You didn't care.

Completely false -- what was the outcome?  The breakage complained about 
was fixed, we made sure Ingo had proper defconfig entries, the changes 
to e1000e were pushed back.

That's a lot of taking-feedback-from-others that you define as "didn't 
care."

	Jeff



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