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:
> > Can't you see that changing build processes takes time?  Fixing driver disk
> > creation tools take time?  Validating that each driver is packaged with its
> > correct firmware takes time?
>
> Umm. Can't you see that if we don't start doing it, it will never get done 
> AT ALL?
>
> Yes, this will take time.

Which, by implication, means that userland is not -already- prepared.

Which means that if you don't have a recent userland of a mainstream 
distro, the result is non-working drivers.

Which is the type of regression I thought we did not want.


> But that's not an argument for not merging it. Quite the reverse.

This is not an either/or proposition, and that is what you are missing.

The change should go in _while at the same time_ not creating regressions.

The change is not the problem.

That the change exists without the ability to recreate similar outputs 
(i.e. firmware in module) is the problem.

	Jeff


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