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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Cc: jeff@garzik.org, mchan@broadcom.com, dwmw2@infradead.org,
	bastian@waldi.eu.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bnx2 - use request_firmware()
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:00:22 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080708.020022.117832147.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080708074132.7d403e98@the-village.bc.nu>

From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 07:41:32 +0100

> On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:08:56 -0400
> > Where is this enormous pain associated with tg3's compiled-in firmware? 
> >   It's been quite convenient.
> 
> How many kernel updates do you think all the worlds users and
> distributors have transferred. How much bandwidth and time do you think
> that cost ?

Sometimes we pay a price for being able to sleep at night.

How many cpus in the world have burned useless cycles computing the
SHA1 checksum of some file's contents for GIT :-)


  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-08  9:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20080704225415.GA557@wavehammer.waldi.eu.org>
2008-07-05  9:44 ` [PATCH] bnx2 - use request_firmware() David Woodhouse
2008-07-07  4:21   ` Michael Chan
2008-07-07  7:53     ` Bastian Blank
2008-07-07  9:03     ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-07 18:56       ` Michael Chan
2008-07-07 21:38         ` David Miller
2008-07-07 21:19           ` Alan Cox
2008-07-07 22:05             ` David Miller
2008-07-08  6:39               ` Alan Cox
2008-07-08  8:58                 ` David Miller
2008-07-09 20:25                   ` request_firmware vs. resume (was Re: [PATCH] bnx2 - use request_firmware()) Pavel Machek
2008-07-09 21:13                     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-07-09 21:20                       ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-09 21:58                         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-07-09 22:23                           ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-09 22:33                             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-07-07 22:08             ` [PATCH] bnx2 - use request_firmware() Jeff Garzik
2008-07-07 23:01               ` David Miller
2008-07-08  6:41               ` Alan Cox
2008-07-08  9:00                 ` David Miller [this message]
2008-07-08  3:30             ` david
2008-07-08  6:49               ` Alan Cox

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