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

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Message-ID: <20080704231322.GA4410@dspnet.fr.eu.org>
Date:	Sat, 5 Jul 2008 01:13:22 +0200
From:	Olivier Galibert <galibert@...ox.com>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, hugh@...itas.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, 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 Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 03:42:37PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> It doesn't yet; that patch is in linux-next. The firmware is shipped as
> part of the kernel source tree, and you currently need to run 'make
> firmware_install' to put it in /lib/firmware, although we're looking at
> making that easier because apparently having to run 'make
> firmware_install' is too hard...

Won't that break multiple kernel installs on any binary packaging
system that cares about file collisions?  Multiple kernel rpms
providing the same /lib/firmware files would break things wouldn't
they ?

  OG.

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