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Message-ID: <48713B73.6030708@garzik.org> Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:38:59 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> CC: david@...g.hm, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, andi@...stfloor.org, tytso@....edu, hugh@...itas.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, 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" David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 13:52 -0700, david@...g.hm wrote: >> On Sun, 6 Jul 2008, David Woodhouse wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 13:17 -0700, david@...g.hm wrote: >>>> if David W were to make it possible to not use the load_firmware() call to >>>> userspace and build the firmware into the driver (be it in a monolithic >>>> kernel or the module that contains the driver) >>> You _can_ build the firmware into the kernel. >> right, but not into a module. you have half of the answer in place, but >> not all of it. > > The useful half. If you have userspace to load modules, you have > userspace to load firmware too. Existing examples have already been provided where this logic fails. Jeff -- 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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