netdev - Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3

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Date:	Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:38:28 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.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"

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.

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

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

Wake up and smell reality.  Please.

	Jeff


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