netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] cxgb3: Add Aeluros 2020 phy support

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Message-Id: <20090603.200050.146284422.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:00:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	divy@...lsio.com
Cc:	ben@...adent.org.uk, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, swise@...ngridcomputing.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] cxgb3: Add Aeluros 2020 phy support

From: Divy Le Ray <divy@...lsio.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:27:41 -0700

> In a boot over the network environment, request_firmware() will not be
> granted
> access to the file system.

This is not true, first of all.  It can be built into the kernel image
via CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL.

Second of all, there is initrd.

There are NO EXCUSES for not using request_firmware() at this point.
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