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SubjectRe: [PATCH net-next] net: vxge: Add MODULE_FIRMWARE
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From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 14:56:55 +0100

> Also: this driver's behaviour of automatically updating flash without
> any confirmation seems quite dangerous. The driver also isn't usable
> after it performs such an update:
>
> printk(KERN_NOTICE "Upgrade of firmware successful! Adapter must be "
> "hard reset before using, thus requiring a system reboot or a "
> "hotplug event.\n");
>
> So what is the point of integrating firmware update into the driver at
> all?

This is beyond terrible.


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