The following reply was made to PR kern/32342; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, plunky@rya-online.net
Subject: Re: kern/32342: OpenBSD firmware loading framework
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:15:05 +0000

 On 2005.12.20 00:05:02 +0000, Iain Hibbert wrote:
 | The following reply was made to PR kern/32342; it has been noted by GNATS.
 | 
 | From: Iain Hibbert <plunky@rya-online.net>
 | To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
 | Cc: kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
 | 	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
 | Subject: Re: kern/32342: OpenBSD firmware loading framework
 | Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:55:26 +0000 (GMT)
 | 
 |  On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Rui Paulo wrote:
 |  
 |  > Why did you changed the name from loadfirmware to load_firmware BTW ?
 |  
 |  I didn't like the look of it..
 |  
 |  >  | >  - It should be possible to set the directory search path via sysctl,
 |  >  | >  rather than hard-coding "/etc/firmware".
 |  >  |
 |  >  | Ah, I thought something like that when I first looked at it, but forgot.
 |  >  | Easy to add, however..
 |  >  |
 |  >  | hw.firmware.directory = /etc/firmware
 |  >  | hw.firmware.max_size =
 |  >
 |  >  I suppose they should be under kern, not hw.
 |  
 |  Well I'm easy, but why particularly?
 
 Because firmware loading settings belong to the kernel, not to some
 specific driver.
 
 		-- Rui Paulo