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

[david]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 15:24 -0700, david@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > > Why is it suddenly so important that a kernel be 'zero impact' for that
> > > module case, when it's never been zero impact for that case before? You
> > > had to rewrite the initrd to begin with, but now you're not willing to do
> > > it again, just because you have to rewrite it slightly _differently_?
> >
> > becouse the tools that wrote the initrd already put the modules in. I
> > don't maintain those tools, they came with the distro. we're just asking
> > to not require those tools to be updated immediatly.
>
> The tools that write the initrd already put the firmware in too.

not always, as Jeff showed.

David Lang
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