netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/10] cxgb3

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Date:	Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:26:03 +0100
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Divy Le Ray <divy@...lsio.com>
Cc:	Divy Le Ray <None@...lsio.com>, jeff@...zik.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	swise@...ngridcomputing.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/10] cxgb3 - main source file


> Using request_firmware assumes that the driver knows the FW file name

no it knows an ALIAS for it.

> and the driver initiates the load. That's not our model where we work
> with different FWs, don't know what the names are,

you can have the user make a symlink to the one he wants. No Big Deal.


>  and the user 
> initiates the load.

that sounds broken, but you can have a sysfs parameter for "load now";
cpu microcode has something like that as well..

but are you really sure you don't want to just do the load at "up"
time ?


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