netdev - Re: 2.6.28-git8: tg3 doesn't work due to firmware not loading (-git7 is ok)

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Message-Id: <20090111.133929.57600645.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:39:29 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dwmw2@...radead.org
Cc:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, alessandro.suardi@...il.com,
	jaswinderlinux@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.28-git8: tg3 doesn't work due to firmware not loading
 (-git7 is ok)

From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:24:58 +0000

> Other drivers will load the firmware later, at the time the device is
> brought up. This means that even if you build the driver into the kernel
> without its firmware, it can still request the firmware later, when you
> try to start _using_ it. And when the file system is available.

For example, for mounting an NFS root using that device.... Oh, will I
need an initramfs for that once you pull the firmware-in-kernel
option?

To me, device probe is in fact the place to fail firmware discovery
for networking devices.  Because such a failure can mean you can't
mount your root filesystem.
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