Re: [PATCH] bnx2 - use request_firmware()

David Miller
2008-07-08T09:00:31Z

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 :-)