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Message-ID: <20080708073922.6c2470c1@the-village.bc.nu>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 07:39:22 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: mchan@...adcom.com, dwmw2@...radead.org, bastian@...di.eu.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bnx2 - use request_firmware()
> The firmware needs to be reloaded every time the chip resets.
> You're not saving anything/
> See above, you aren't saving anything. The firmware needs to stay
> around so it can be reloaded into the card during exceptions.
>
> That is, unless you want a more failure prone system.
Ok so if tg3 always needs the same firmware and always needs it in memory
then maybe it isn't a significant candidate for request_firmware beyond
the neatness of distribution. I note the firmware hasn't changed in years
so it can easily be shipped separately and the one package would have
done for all this time.
> > Driver authors aren't God.
>
> They (actually, more specifically the maintainers) to a certain extent
> are, because they are the ones who eat doo-doo when something explodes.
So do the distributions and the users.
Alan
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