[Prism54-devel] upload firmware for older kernels

Luis R. Rodriguez mcgrof@ruslug.rutgers.edu
Mon, 2 Feb 2004 16:29:53 -0500


On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 10:22:56PM +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Luis,
> 
> > Providing documenation on how to use these and where to obtain these is
> > definitely an option. The option I'm suggesting is to actually use an
> > internal-driver firmware upload function just as it existed before
> > firmware_class support which was completed in 2.4.23. I personally like 
> > the latter since it involves less work from the user. How about the 
> > rest of you?
> 
> backport firmware_class or give it up. This is not worth trying, because
> it bloats the code and such code will not accepted for kernel inclusion.

Very well. This is a good enough argument to drop it ;)

	Luis