On Sat, 4 Aug 2007, David Lang wrote: > what I've been told is that with the drive built-in instead of > modular you can create a filesystem that has only the firmware > on it, nothing else, and have the kernel find and load it (no > userspace software involved)
I'm afraid my understanding of the kernel is not very deep, so I don't know of this method you're describing. Anyway, if there's no userspace involved then nothing should change. The patch I sent only affects the behaviour of the kernel when it actually tries to send a firmware request to userspace (and it determines that the request was not received). If the kernel loads a firmware image without userspace support, it must do so in a codepath different from request_firmware, whose point is precisely to send a firmware request and wait for it, and request_firmware is the only function that effectively changes with my patch. Javier - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
