linux-kernel - Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3

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Message-ID: <20080704000206.259475a0@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 4 Jul 2008 00:02:06 +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"

> Actually, I was tossing that about in my head:
> 
> Is it a better idea to eliminate 'make firmware_install' completely, and 
> instead implement it silently via 'make install'?
> 
> 'make install' is already a big fat distro hook...

make firmware_install can encapsulate a lot of kernel specific knowledge
so I think it belongs in the kernel tree to avoid problems in future. The
use of make firmware_install belongs in the distro make install hooks.

Otherwise we will mess up the distro stuff if we have to change the
innards of make firmware_install in future, as may well occur.
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