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?
 
 iain