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