From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933634AbXIUWwu (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:52:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764794AbXIUWdr (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:33:47 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:41974 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764757AbXIUWdq (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:33:46 -0400 Message-ID: <46F446C3.9050600@garzik.org> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:33:39 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070727) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Denys Vlasenko , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, David Miller , mchan@broadcom.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] bnx2: factor out gzip unpacker References: <200709211201.24475.vda.linux@googlemail.com> <200709211905.23946.vda.linux@googlemail.com> <15775.1190399812@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <200709212018.06553.vda.linux@googlemail.com> <20070921220333.3b31afb5@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <20070921220333.3b31afb5@the-village.bc.nu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.9 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: >> For example, bnx2 maintainer says that driver and >> firmware are closely tied for his driver. IOW: you upgrade kernel >> and your NIC is not working anymore. >> >> Another argument is to make kernel be able to bring up NICs >> without needing firmware images in initramfs/initrd/hard drive. > > dgrs should be using the request_firmware interface. Actually dgrs is > probably a good candidate for /dev/null According to an earlier thread, dgrs was never really maintained, written for hardware that was never really distributed widely, and very likely hasn't had users in years... if ever. If that picture is accurate (it's a story I was told), then I am definitely queueing up a deletion patch. Jeff