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From: DuanZhenzhong <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
To: "Américo Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: declare MODULE_FIRMWARE in libsas
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:28:26 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D24017A.3060202@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110105044733.GA6256@cr0.nay.redhat.com>

Américo Wang 写道:
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 11:18:45AM +0800, DuanZhenzhong wrote:
>   
>> Jeff Garzik 写道:
>>     
>>> On 01/04/2011 09:08 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 15:43 +0800, DuanZhenzhong wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan<zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>           
>>>> Description?  Since libsas has no firmware, surely some explanation is
>>>> required.
>>>>         
>>> Indeed.  Looks bogus at first glance?
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> I was finding all requested but not exported firmware in scsi driver
>> for generating dump initrd use.
>> In sas_scsi_host.c, request_firmware is called with "sas_addr",
>> sas_addr neither builtin nor exported. Don't sas_addr a firmware?
>> Please correct me. thanks
>>
>>     
>
> But once you export it, it needs to be found in fireware/ directory...
>   
Not exactly, firmware/ dir only have a subset of all needed firmware. 
Also one can load firmware manually from anywhere

-- 
Regards
zhenzhong

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-05  5:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-04  7:43 declare MODULE_FIRMWARE in libsas DuanZhenzhong
2011-01-04 14:08 ` James Bottomley
2011-01-04 17:45   ` Jeff Garzik
2011-01-05  3:18     ` DuanZhenzhong
2011-01-05  3:18       ` DuanZhenzhong
2011-01-05  4:36       ` James Bottomley
2011-01-05  4:36         ` James Bottomley
2011-01-05  5:27         ` DuanZhenzhong
2011-01-05  4:47       ` Américo Wang
2011-01-05  4:47         ` Américo Wang
2011-01-05  5:28         ` DuanZhenzhong [this message]
2011-01-05  5:42           ` Américo Wang

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