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

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Message-Id: <1215377814.3189.137.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
Date:	Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:56:54 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	david@...g.hm
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jeff@...zik.org,
	andi@...stfloor.org, tytso@....edu, 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 Sun, 2008-07-06 at 13:52 -0700, david@...g.hm wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jul 2008, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 13:17 -0700, david@...g.hm wrote:
> >> if David W were to make it possible to not use the load_firmware() call to
> >> userspace and build the firmware into the driver (be it in a monolithic
> >> kernel or the module that contains the driver)
> >
> > You _can_ build the firmware into the kernel.
> 
> right, but not into a module. you have half of the answer in place, but 
> not all of it.

The useful half. If you have userspace to load modules, you have
userspace to load firmware too.

-- 
dwmw2

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