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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 07:36:37 +0100 From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> Cc: jeff@...zik.org, dwmw2@...radead.org, andi@...stfloor.org, tytso@....edu, hugh@...itas.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com, mchan@...adcom.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" > That's pure bullox as far as I can see. Why provide the means to > do something nobody has had a need for in 6+ years? Who needs > to load different firmware for the tg3 driver? Who needs modules, nobody needed it for years ... you are repeating historically failed arguments still. > Who needs that capability? Distribution vendors? What for? > In what case will they need to load different firmware from > what the driver maintainer tested as a unit? For some drivers yes. Maybe not tg3. > And, btw, who has the right to enforce this new burdon upon driver > maintainers when they have had a working and maintainable system for > so long? The module argument again - see my comment about the sound driver history. > I can only see it being about separation, pure and simple. Separation - of firmware that can be paged from code that cannot. Of stuff that doesn't change from stuff that does. That happens to be good engineering. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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