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Date:	Mon, 9 Nov 2009 12:58:13 +0100
From:	Jens Osterkamp <jens@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Ishizaki Kou <kou.ishizaki@...hiba.co.jp>,
	Jens Osterkamp <jens@...ibm.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, arnd@...db.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 43/75] spider-net: declare MODULE_FIRMWARE

On Saturday 07 November 2009, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
> ---
>  drivers/net/spider_net.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/spider_net.c b/drivers/net/spider_net.c
> index 90e663f..782910c 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/spider_net.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/spider_net.c
> @@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Utz Bacher <utz.bacher@...ibm.com> and
> Jens Osterkamp " \ MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Spider Southbridge Gigabit Ethernet
> driver"); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>  MODULE_VERSION(VERSION);
> +MODULE_FIRMWARE(SPIDER_NET_FIRMWARE_NAME);
>
>  static int rx_descriptors = SPIDER_NET_RX_DESCRIPTORS_DEFAULT;
>  static int tx_descriptors = SPIDER_NET_TX_DESCRIPTORS_DEFAULT;

In spider_net, the filesystem is checked for a valid firmware first, if it 
does not exist, the firmware is taken from the device tree (which is the 
default case).

Do you expect this behaviour to cause problems together with MODULE_FIRMWARE ?

-- 
Best regards, 

Jens Osterkamp
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