Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin"

Alan Cox
2008-07-03T23:02:06Z

> Actually, I was tossing that about in my head:
>
> Is it a better idea to eliminate 'make firmware_install' completely, and
> instead implement it silently via 'make install'?
>
> 'make install' is already a big fat distro hook...

make firmware_install can encapsulate a lot of kernel specific knowledge
so I think it belongs in the kernel tree to avoid problems in future. The
use of make firmware_install belongs in the distro make install hooks.

Otherwise we will mess up the distro stuff if we have to change the
innards of make firmware_install in future, as may well occur.