From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <486E2589.8090304@garzik.org> Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:28:41 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" 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> In-Reply-To: <1215177471.10393.753.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: David Woodhouse 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: David Woodhouse wrote: > 3. Look at making 'make modules_install' installl the firmware required > by the modules it's installing, so you don't even need to do > _anything_ new. Anything that works with existing build processes would be a positive step, preventing loads of build&test regressions. This does not change the need, of course, to default this firmware install stuff to 'off', and allow distros to turn it on when they're ready (as Alan, Ted, and others have suggested in this thread). Jeff -- 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