Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Re: Freedom issues with non-free firmware in external files

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Aug 17, 2009, address@hidden (Karl Berry) wrote:

> Excuse the interruption, but can someone point me at an example of the
> actual GPL'd code which is loading the nonfree firmware?

All the examples in Linux follow more or less this pattern:

  name = "some/firmware.bin";
  if (request_firmware (&fw, name, dev) < 0) {
    printk (ERROR "%s: failed to load firmware `%s'", dev->name, name);
    return -EINVAL;
  }
  ... load firmware ...

grep for request_firmware in the Linux source tree and you'll find
hundreds of examples, less than a handful of which are acceptable.

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