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Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 23:25:54 +0100 From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, KOSAKI Motohiro <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" O > Further, all current kernel build and test etc. scripts are unaware of > 'make firmware_install', and it is unfair to everybody to force a > flag-day build process change on people, just to keep their drivers in > the same working state today as it was yesterday. IMHO we want firmware built in as the default for the moment. If the firmware model makes sense (as I think it does) then the distributions will catch up, turn it on and sort out the default behaviour - exactly as they did all those years ago with modules, more recently with "use an initrd" and so on. > as "making no sense". All these are real world examples where users > FOLLOWING THEIR NORMAL, PROSCRIBED KERNEL PROCESSES will produce I hope you mean "prescribed" ;) > The only valid assumption here is to assume that the user is /unaware/ > of these new steps they must take in order to continue to have a working > system. To a large extent not the user but their distro - consider "make install" -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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