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

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 04:55:45PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

 > No, I spelled out a list of projects, what would break, and how it would 
 > break.
 > 
 > Again,
 > 
 > * Red Hat driver disks.  The build process is unaware of the need to 
 > bundle firmware.  Any use with Fedora (or, later, RHEL) will result in a 
 > non-working driver, for the simple reason that firmware is not copied 
 > onto the image.

For old RHEL - they won't support 2.6.27, so moot.
For next-gen RHEL - they need fixing anyway.
For Fedora, they don't (and hopefully won't) exist.

	Dave

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