Re: TG3(Tigoon) & Kernel 2.4.27

David S. Miller
2004-08-24T18:34:43Z

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:25:33 -0700
"Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote:

> | --------------
> | drivers/net/net.o(.text+0x17550): In function `tg3_request_firmware': :
> | undefined reference to `request_firmware'
> | drivers/net/net.o(.text+0x17652): In function `tg3_request_firmware': :
> | undefined reference to `release_firmware'
> | -------------
> |
> | Any clue?
> |
> | PS: I can include a part of my .config
>
> You need to enable CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL and CONFIG_HOTPLUG
> and then CONFIG_FW_LOADER in the Library routines menu.

Oh on the contrary, I've never seen a call to request_firmware()
in any copy of the tg3 driver and that's strange being that I'm
the maintainer. :-)

People, if you're going to use patched up kernels, report your
problems to the people you got the kernel from. Thanks.