Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:22:27 -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 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...
That makes the false presumption that scripts have been updated to avoid the obvious case -- non-working drivers.
Why is it so difficult to follow a simple principle:
Keep things working tomorrow, that work today.
hmmm?
That's how kernel module support was integrated, so many years ago.
Jeff
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