On Fri, 28 Apr 2023 13:43:16 +0300 Kalle Valo wrote: > > I don't think it's that much extra work, the driver requires FW > > according to modinfo, anyway, so /lib/firmware is already required. > > And on smaller systems with few hundred MB of RAM it'd be nice to not > > hold all the stuff in kernel memory, I'd think. > > Later in this thread Ping explained pretty well the challenges here, > that sums exactly what I'm worried about. > > > We have a rule against putting FW as a static table in the driver > > source, right? Or did we abandon that? Isn't this fundamentally similar? > > My understanding is that these are just initialisation values for > hardware, not executable code. (Ping, please correct me if I > misunderstood.) So that's why I thought these are ok to have in kernel. > So I took practicality over elegance here. Alright, I'll try to make someone else do this outside of wireless, and come back with real life experience disproving the concerns :)
