On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Anyway. Attached is a really stupid patch that tries to do the "direct
> firmware load" as suggested by Ivan. It has not been tested very
> extensively at all (but I did test that it loaded the brcmsmac
> firmware images on my laptop so it has the *potential* to work).
Oh, and I stupidly put the new functions next to the builtin firmware
loading function, which means that the patch only works if you have
CONFIG_FW_LOADER enabled.
That's bogus, and the functions should be moved out of that #ifdef,
but I don't think it should hurt testing.
Linus
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