One of the reasons we haven't yet converted all drivers to use request_firmware() is because it would have forced people to use an initrd or udev in some cases where it wouldn't have been necessary before. At git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/firmware-2.6.git I've fixed that, by adding support for including firmware files directly in the kernel image, and letting request_firmware() find them there. So now it would be useful for people to help out by finding drivers which have their firmware built in by some other means, and converting them to use request_firmware() instead. A convenient list of such drivers can be found at http://www.fsfla.org/svn/fsfla/software/linux-libre/scripts/deblob-2.6.25 -- although a few of those seem to be false positives; the two 'offending' video drivers, at least, seem to be just a table of {register,value} settings for initialisation. For now, we're converting the firmware to ihex files in the firmware/ directory -- I'm hoping to move the entire firmware/ directory out into a separate tarball at some point in the future. If anyone feels like following the examples in the above git tree and cleaning up some extra drivers, that would be greatly appreciated. -- dwmw2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
