netdev - Re: e100/netconsole: Failed to load firmware (Re: linux-next: Tree for November 3)

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Message-ID: <a4423d670811030842v814c7f9x84de7803e8a96883@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 3 Nov 2008 19:42:02 +0300
From:	"Alexander Beregalov" <a.beregalov@...il.com>
To:	"David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, jaswinder@...radead.org,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: e100/netconsole: Failed to load firmware (Re: linux-next: Tree for November 3)

2008/11/3 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>:
> On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 19:00 +0300, Alexander Beregalov wrote:
>> # CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL is not set
>> CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE=""
>
> OK, so you didn't include the E100 firmware in the kernel, so it only
> actually manages to bring up the E100 after it's mounted the root file
> system, not in time for the console?
>
> If you set CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL, does it work?
Oh, I forget this option, sorry.

Yes, it works, thanks.
>
> I think that's fairly much expected behaviour. I wonder if there's a way
> we could make it slightly more intuitive though.
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