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

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Message-ID: <20090113183948.GA21847@xw6200.broadcom.net>
Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:39:48 -0800
From:	"Matt Carlson" <mcarlson@...adcom.com>
To:	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
cc:	"dwmw2@...radead.org" <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	"Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu" <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu>,
	"alessandro.suardi@...il.com" <alessandro.suardi@...il.com>,
	"jaswinderlinux@...il.com" <jaswinderlinux@...il.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@...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)

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 01:39:29PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> 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.

David, is this the direction you want to take the fix?  I'm sitting on
a patch that elaborates on David Woodhouse's work which moves the
request_firmware call to tg3_open().  Before I posted it for comment,
I wanted to make sure the patch is moving in the right direction.

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