From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 14:03:18 -0700 (PDT) From: david@lang.hm Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" In-Reply-To: <1215377814.3189.137.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Message-ID: References: <1215178035.10393.763.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <486E2818.1060003@garzik.org> <20080704142753.27848ff8@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20080704.134329.209642254.davem@davemloft.net> <20080704220444.011e7e61@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <1215376034.3189.127.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <1215377814.3189.137.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: David Woodhouse Cc: Alan Cox , David Miller , jeff@garzik.org, andi@firstfloor.org, 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 Sun, 6 Jul 2008, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 13:52 -0700, david@lang.hm wrote: >> On Sun, 6 Jul 2008, David Woodhouse wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 13:17 -0700, david@lang.hm wrote: >>>> if David W were to make it possible to not use the load_firmware() call to >>>> userspace and build the firmware into the driver (be it in a monolithic >>>> kernel or the module that contains the driver) >>> >>> You _can_ build the firmware into the kernel. >> >> right, but not into a module. you have half of the answer in place, but >> not all of it. > > The useful half. If you have userspace to load modules, you have > userspace to load firmware too. it's the half where there isn't a work-around (and therefor the most critical part), but it's also the half that is used less, so in terms of user impact it could be argued that the part not yet done will cause more pain. David Lang -- 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