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Message-Id: <1215093175.10393.567.camel@pmac.infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:52:55 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	mchan@...adcom.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin"

On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 09:38 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> David Woodhouse wrote:
> >> dwmw2 has been told repeatedly that his changes will cause PRECISELY 
> >> these problems, but he refuses to take the simple steps necessary to 
> >> ensure people can continue to boot their kernels after his changes go in.
> > 
> > Complete nonsense. Setting CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL isn't hard. But
> > shouldn't be the _default_, either.
> > 
> >> Presently his tg3 changes have been nak'd, in part, because of this 
> >> obviously, forseeable, work-around-able breakage.
> > 
> > They haven't even been reviewed. Nobody seems to have actually looked at
> 
> 
> Yes, they have.  You just didn't like the answers you received.

I received no comment on any part of the changes within tg3.c; only
whining about the default behaviour -- which isn't even _set_ as part of
the patch in question, any more.

> In particular, the Kconfig default for built-in tg3 firmware should 
> result in the current behavior, without the user having to take extra steps.

After feedback from a number of people, there is no individual Kconfig
option for the various firmwares; there is only one which controls them
all -- CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL. The thing you're whining about isn't
even part of the patch which needs review.

> Because of your stubborn refusal on this Kconfig defaults issue, WE 
> ALREADY HAVE DRIVER-DOES-NOT-WORK BREAKAGE, JUST AS PREDICTED.

I strongly disagree that CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y should be the
default. But if I add this patch elsewhere in the kernel, will you quit
your whining and actually review the patch you were asked to review? ...

diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig
index 339c148..d47482f 100644
--- a/drivers/base/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ config FW_LOADER
 config FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL
 	bool "Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary"
 	depends on FW_LOADER
+	default y
 	help
 	  The kernel source tree includes a number of firmware 'blobs'
 	  which are used by various drivers. The recommended way to

-- 
dwmw2

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