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

[Marcel Holtmann]

Hi Linus,

> Requiring you to write udevd scripts for that sounds insane. I wouldn't 
> even know where to start.
> 
> So kernel-specific directories do make sense. As does the whole "I don't 
> want to handle the pain that is udev scripts".

you don't have to. We extend udev once and then it will always work. As
mentioned before, Ubuntu is already doing this. They never bothered to
submit this upstream and I didn't really care since I have all my
firmware files in /lib/firmware and had no need to add versions to it.

Regards

Marcel


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