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: <486E2818.1060003@garzik.org> References: <1215093175.10393.567.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080703173040.GB30506@mit.edu> <1215111362.10393.651.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080703.162120.206258339.davem@davemloft.net> <486D6DDB.4010205@infradead.org> <87ej6armez.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <1215177044.10393.743.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <486E2260.5050503@garzik.org> <1215178035.10393.763.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <486E2818.1060003@garzik.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:46:01 +0100 Message-Id: <1215179161.10393.773.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Andi Kleen , David Miller , tytso@mit.edu, hugh@veritas.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, mchan@broadcom.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 09:39 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > You have been told repeatedly that cp(1) and scp(1) are commonly used > to transport the module David and I care about -- tg3. It's been a > single file module since birth, and people take advantage of that > fact. And you can _continue_ to do that. You'd need to install the firmware just once, and that's all. It's a non-issue, and it isn't _worth_ the added complexity of building the firmware into the module. _Especially_ since I strongly suspect you'll come back with an even sillier argument if we do. Like claiming that you also run 'grep request_firmware tg3.ko' and your scripts will fail if it matches... -- 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