At Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:10:14 -0400,
Theodore Tso wrote:
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 02:27:15PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
quoted
That's the way it has been for a _long_ time anyway, for any modern
driver which uses request_firmware(). The whole point about modules is
_modularity_. Yes, that means that sometimes they depend on _other_
modules, or on firmware.
The scripts which handle that kind of thing have handled inter-module
dependencies, and MODULE_FIRMWARE(), for a long time now.
FYI, at least Ubuntu Hardy's initramfs does not seem to deal with
firmware for modules correctly.
Neither SUSE's mkinitrd.
(Hannes, please correct if I'm wrong...)
Takashi