Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin"

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Sun Jul 06 2008 - 17:39:36 EST


David Woodhouse wrote:
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 13:52 -0700, david@xxxxxxx wrote:
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008, David Woodhouse wrote:

On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 13:17 -0700, david@xxxxxxx wrote:
if David W were to make it possible to not use the load_firmware() call to
userspace and build the firmware into the driver (be it in a monolithic
kernel or the module that contains the driver)
You _can_ build the firmware into the kernel.
right, but not into a module. you have half of the answer in place, but not all of it.

The useful half. If you have userspace to load modules, you have
userspace to load firmware too.

Existing examples have already been provided where this logic fails.

Jeff



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