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

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Jeff Garzik  <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> said:
>* 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.

Then Red Hat driver disks are already broken, as there are current
modules (e.g. qla2xxx) that require external firmware.

>* Embedded projects like OpenWRT, that divide up kernel modules into 
>multiple packages.  Since it's not just one big package, you have to 
>update each package's list of files to include the newly split-out 
>firmwares.  Failure to do so results in a successful build set of 
>packages... of drivers that lack their firmware.

AFAIK OpenWRT and the like don't just throw in random new kernel
releases without at least reading release notes and testing.
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Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx>
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