From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:23:46 +0200 Message-ID: From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" In-Reply-To: <20080704141014.GA23215@mit.edu> 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> <20080704141014.GA23215@mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Theodore Tso Cc: David Woodhouse , Jeff Garzik , Andi Kleen , David Miller , hugh@veritas.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, mchan@broadcom.com, Hannes Reinecke , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org List-ID: At Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:10:14 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 02:27:15PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > > That's the way it has been for a _long_ time anyway, for any modern > > driver which uses request_firmware(). The whole point about modules is > > _modularity_. Yes, that means that sometimes they depend on _other_ > > modules, or on firmware. > > > > The scripts which handle that kind of thing have handled inter-module > > dependencies, and MODULE_FIRMWARE(), for a long time now. > > FYI, at least Ubuntu Hardy's initramfs does not seem to deal with > firmware for modules correctly. Neither SUSE's mkinitrd. (Hannes, please correct if I'm wrong...) Takashi -- 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