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:
>
> [..] just make the kernel able to look up binary blobs in the same place 
> it installed them.

Obviously, we'd want to make it dynamically configurable, ie the same way 
we specify where to find 'modprobe', let people specify (in 
/proc/kernel/firmware-dir or something) where to find the firmware. Just 
default it to something sane (that obviously matches where we installed 
them).

I'm not a huge udevd fan, obviously. I think we can short-circuit this all 
in the name of expediency, with udevd as a fallback, not as the only way.

			Linus
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