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Message-ID: <4807377b0901191030g27efac79rbd39501eb2eea4cb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:30:01 -0800 From: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...il.com> To: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru> Cc: e1000-devel@...ts.soutceforge.net, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6.29-rc2 regression] e100: netconsole not functional because of missing firmware On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru> wrote: > [ 2.008509] e100: eth0: e100_request_firmware: Failed to load > firmware "e100/d101m_ucode.bin": -22 > [ 2.010461] netconsole: failed to open eth0 > [ 2.010996] netconsole: cleaning up > > This has been working all the time without requiring any external > firmware to be present. Why it suddenly refuses to work now? to use netconsole you probably need to set config option CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y Hm, I wonder if we couldn't have netconsole=y select CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL in Kconfig the arguments as to why the firmware was split out of the drivers have already been made on this list. Not that I agree with them, but the decision has been made and we're (network devs) going along with it. -- 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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