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: <20080704142753.27848ff8@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> 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> <20080704142753.27848ff8@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:48:24 +0100 Message-Id: <1215179304.10393.777.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Alan Cox Cc: Jeff Garzik , 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 14:27 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Why is it so difficult to see the value of KEEPING STUFF WORKING AS > IT > > WORKS TODAY? > > Sure Jeff. Lets delete libata, that caused all sorts of problems when > it was being added. A particularly good example. I used to be able to just copy around the driver for my host controller. Now I have to copy _two_ files, so the world is going to end! Should I have insisted that we link libata statically into each and every module which uses it? (Or at least I have to copy two files _if_ I actually want to make changes to libata.ko too, which I almost never do...) -- 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