Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:38:59 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" |
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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.
Existing examples have already been provided where this logic fails.
Jeff
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