From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: <486E28BB.1030205@garzik.org> References: <20080703020236.adaa51fa.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080703205548.D6E5.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> <486CC440.9030909@garzik.org> <1215177471.10393.753.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <486E28BB.1030205@garzik.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:45:26 +0100 Message-Id: <1215179126.10393.771.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Takashi Iwai , Hugh Dickins , KOSAKI Motohiro , mchan@broadcom.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , netdev@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 09:42 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > mkinitrd and similar scripts must be updated, so that drivers that > worked prior to dwmw2's changes will continue to work after dwmw2's > changes. > If you fail to update some script somewhere, then the driver will be > copied into the initramfs, but not the firmware, with obvious results. No, mkinitrd works fine, because a whole boatload of drivers _already_ require it to work that way and have done for a long time. Either you are severely mistaken, or you are being deliberately misleading. -- dwmw2 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org