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

David Woodhouse
2008-07-06T22:10:25Z

On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 17:38 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 13:52 -0700, david@lang.hm wrote:
> >> On Sun, 6 Jul 2008, David Woodhouse wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 13:17 -0700, david@lang.hm wrote:
> >>>> if David W were to make it possible to not use the load_firmware() call to
> >>>> userspace and build the firmware into the driver (be it in a monolithic
> >>>> kernel or the module that contains the driver)
> >>> You _can_ build the firmware into the kernel.
> >> right, but not into a module. you have half of the answer in place, but
> >> not all of it.
> >
> > The useful half. If you have userspace to load modules, you have
> > userspace to load firmware too.
>
> Existing examples have already been provided where this logic fails.

I even provided such an example, where your script greps the module for
'request_firmware' and fails if there's a match. I don't think any of
the other provided examples were _much_ more sensible than that...

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