From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:49828 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751127AbbEFQoI (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 May 2015 12:44:08 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 18:44:02 +0200 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: Johannes Berg Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , rusty@rustcorp.com.au, dhowells@redhat.com, ming.lei@canonical.com, seth.forshee@canonical.com, kyle@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, keescook@chromium.org, casey@schaufler-ca.com, tiwai@suse.de, mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, wireless-regdb@lists.infradead.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, jlee@suse.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC v1 11/12] iwlwifi: use sysdata_file_request() and sysdata_file_request_async() Message-ID: <20150506164402.GM5622@wotan.suse.de> (sfid-20150506_184430_016018_79B8299E) References: <1430873070-7290-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> <1430873070-7290-12-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> <1430895798.2495.0.camel@sipsolutions.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1430895798.2495.0.camel@sipsolutions.net> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 09:03:18AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > What's the point in these conversions? You're clearly not converting > *all* users so you could get rid of request_firmware(), so this is > pretty much pointless. That is correct, as the cover letter stated these are just examples of how one can use the new proposed extensible API, the driver changes were just examples, it would certainly be pointless and stupid to convert drivers over. Luis