Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:10:25 +0100 |
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On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 17:38 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > 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.
I even provided such an example, where your script greps the module for 'request_firmware' and fails if there's a match. I don't think any of the other provided examples were _much_ more sensible than that...
-- dwmw2
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