linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.28-git8: tg3 doesn't work due to firmware not loading (-git7 is ok)

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Message-Id: <1231692963.25018.422.camel@macbook.infradead.org>
Date:	Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:56:02 +0000
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, alessandro.suardi@...il.com,
	jaswinderlinux@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.28-git8: tg3 doesn't work due to firmware not loading
 (-git7 is ok)

On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 11:48 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> One unanswered question:  What do we expect the system to do if they have this
> patch, TIGON3=y, FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=n, and configure a netconsole for boot
> messages?  I'm *hoping* the answer is "the netconsole doesn't come up at boot,
> but can be re-enabled via the /sys/kernel/config/netconsole interface after
> you've done an 'ifconfig eth0 up' or similar, or do a 'modprobe netconsole'.
> 
> Those seem like reasonable semantics to me - anybody got a different opinion?

If netconsole follows the normal ->open() path, that sounds like what'll
happen.

-- 
dwmw2

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