netdev - Re: [PATCH] bnx2x: cache-in compressed fw image

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Date:	Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:48:33 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dmitry@...adcom.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, eilong@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bnx2x: cache-in compressed fw image

From: "Dmitry Kravkov" <dmitry@...adcom.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:07:33 +0200

> Re-request fw from fs may fail for different reasons, once the fw was
> loaded we won't release it until driver is removed.
> 
> This also resolves the boot problem when initial fw is located on initrd,
> but rootfs is still unavailable, in this case device reset will fail due
> to absence of fw files.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kravkov <dmitry@...adcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@...adcom.com>

Applied.
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