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

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 
> Hey, how about a config option that turns firwmare files into
> stand-alone kernel modules that register the blob into the
> request_firmware internal list, and MODULE_FIRMWARE into a module
> dependency?

I think that should work fine from a technical angle, and I don't disagree 
per se, but it really is very ugly.

Wouldn't it be much simpler to just require people to have a reasonably 
up-to-date mkinitrd. Apparently it's not available _everywhere_, but if we 
check for this up-front (even if we can apparently only do so at "make 
install" time due to the root requirements), wouldn't that really solve 
the issue with much less work?

			Linus
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/