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: <486F6494.8020108@firstfloor.org> References: <486E2260.5050503@garzik.org> <1215178035.10393.763.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080704141014.GA23215@mit.edu> <486E3622.1000900@suse.de> <1215182557.10393.808.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080704231322.GA4410@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <20080705105317.GA44773@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <486F596C.8050109@firstfloor.org> <20080705120221.GC44773@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <486F6494.8020108@firstfloor.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:16:06 +0100 Message-Id: <1215260166.10393.816.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andi Kleen Cc: Olivier Galibert , Takashi Iwai , Hannes Reinecke , Theodore Tso , Jeff Garzik , David Miller , 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 Sat, 2008-07-05 at 14:09 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Olivier Galibert wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 01:22:20PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > >> Many distribution have some way for separate kernel module packages. > >> It's essentially the same problem so it should be already solved > >> in some way. > > > > Errr, no. Modules go in /lib/modules/`uname -r`, so no conflict. > > Well that's the only sane way to store the firmware anyways (otherwise > you could never keep kernel versions which need different firmware installed) It almost never happens that you have kernel versions which _need_ different firmware installed. In almost all cases, the older driver will continue to work just fine with the newer firmware (and its bug-fixes). The ABI between driver and firmware rarely changes in such a fashion that you have to update the driver in lock-step -- and even on the occasions that it does, it's not hard to simply change the name of the "new-style" firmware so that it doesn't stomp on the old one (Think of it like an soname). -- 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