netdev - Re: [2.6.29-rc2 regression] e100: netconsole not functional because of missing firmware

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Message-ID: <4807377b0901191030g27efac79rbd39501eb2eea4cb@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:30:01 -0800
From:	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...il.com>
To:	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>
Cc:	e1000-devel@...ts.soutceforge.net,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.29-rc2 regression] e100: netconsole not functional because 
	of missing firmware

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru> wrote:
> [    2.008509] e100: eth0: e100_request_firmware: Failed to load
> firmware "e100/d101m_ucode.bin": -22
> [    2.010461] netconsole: failed to open eth0
> [    2.010996] netconsole: cleaning up
>
> This has been working all the time without requiring any external
> firmware to be present. Why it suddenly refuses to work now?

to use netconsole you probably need to set config option
CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y

Hm, I wonder if we couldn't have netconsole=y select
CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL in Kconfig

the arguments as to why the firmware was split out of the drivers have
already been made on this list.  Not that I agree with them, but the
decision has been made and we're (network devs) going along with it.
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