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Message-ID: <4979E67D.5040604@turknet.net.tr> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:47:09 +0200 From: Tarkan Erimer <tarkan.erimer@...knet.net.tr> To: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@...adcom.com> CC: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [BUG] tg3 module problem on Linux-2.6.29-rc1-2 Matt Carlson wrote: > The error message is coming from the > /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hook-functions script. You are right that > the script does not look at the config file for > CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y, but I'm not sure if it should or not. > > The script uses the command 'modinfo -F firmware tg3' to determine > whether or not it should include firmware images in the initrd. The > modinfo command simply inspects the tg3.ko module binary reports if the > module makes any firmware requests. Obviously this isn't the complete > picture. > > Somewhere in this process, the script or modinfo needs to find out if > the kernel has firmware images builtin. How this gets accomplished is > probably best left to the script maintainers. > > Yep, you are right. It looks to me a bit like standard kernel compile process' fault/bug. Because all the previous kernel versions prior to 2.6.29-rc1/2 work flawlessly. -- 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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