From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Denys Fedoryshchenko Subject: kernel 3.3, regression, bnx2 firmware missing in tar.bz2 Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:31:06 +0300 Message-ID: <4F67B3AA.9070900@wbc.net.sa> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mailnew.wbc.net.sa ([77.87.16.6]:56066 "EHLO mx.wbc.net.sa" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758143Ab2CSW55 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:57:57 -0400 Received: from [188.53.74.59] (helo=[192.168.2.210]) by mx.wbc.net.sa with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1S9l6i-0008R4-S7 for netdev@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:31:16 +0300 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Just loaded to 2.6.39 machine newest 3.3 kernel and got dead network interface: Mar 20 03:28:37 localhost kernel: bnx2: Can't load firmware file "bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw" On one side i agree that firmware can have non-GPL license, but at any case while it is working in old kernel, if it is dead in new - and it is very bad. Just checked commit Actually i am expecting to have working network interfaces with downloaded tar.bz2 of stable kernel release, especially if it was working before, otherwise it is plain regression. Or i am wrong? Sure i know how to use git, but it is non-trivial to find about git tree with this firmware in git.kernel.org, nothing mentioned in documentation. It will be perfect, if make process at least will try to fetch firmwares from git or note about it at end of compiling. Thanks.