netdev - Re: 2.6.28-git8: tg3 doesn't work due to firmware not loading (-git7 is ok)

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Date:	Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:13:59 +0000
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, alessandro.suardi@...il.com,
	jaswinderlinux@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.28-git8: tg3 doesn't work due to firmware not loading
 (-git7 is ok)

On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 19:10 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> So it looks like the patch is failing to finish initialization of the card.
> Damned if *I* can see what's breaking it, the conversion to use a helper
> function tg3_request_firmware seems sane enough....

Ahem...

--- drivers/net/tg3.c.stupiddwmw2	2009-01-12 08:13:05.000000000 +0000
+++ drivers/net/tg3.c	2009-01-12 08:13:09.000000000 +0000
@@ -13151,7 +13151,7 @@ static int __devinit tg3_init_one(struct
 		   try again in tg3_open(). So if you have the driver built
 		   into the kernel, you can still get the firmware loaded
 		   after userspace is running, when the device comes up. */
-		if (err != -ENOENT)
+		if (err && err != -ENOENT)
 			goto err_out_fw;
 	}
 

-- 
dwmw2

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