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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 23:05:24 +0200
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>
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Subject: Re: Problems loading firmware using built-in drivers with kernels
 that use initramfs.
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On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 09:35:12PM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> Arend, curious are you working on this? Me and Julia did some hunting and
> have found quite a bit of users that could use this. I'll provide results
> in another thread but figured I'd follow up to see if anyone is working
> to address this. Otherwise we just have hacks for now.

A lot of things are going on with firmware_class enhancements so lets
jot things down here:

http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects/firmware-class-enhancements

  Luis