From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756620AbZFDDIT (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jun 2009 23:08:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753941AbZFDDII (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jun 2009 23:08:08 -0400 Received: from stargate.chelsio.com ([67.207.112.58]:31701 "EHLO stargate.chelsio.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753121AbZFDDIH (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jun 2009 23:08:07 -0400 Message-ID: <4A2739E4.9090606@chelsio.com> Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:05:08 -0700 From: Divy Le Ray User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090409) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Miller CC: ben@decadent.org.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, swise@opengridcomputing.com Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] cxgb3: Add Aeluros 2020 phy support References: <20090529075829.30669.41488.stgit@speedy5> <20090601105349.GF3051@decadent.org.uk> <4A27311D.7070400@chelsio.com> <20090603.200050.146284422.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20090603.200050.146284422.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Jun 2009 03:06:28.0031 (UTC) FILETIME=[73DACCF0:01C9E4C1] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Miller wrote: > From: Divy Le Ray > Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:27:41 -0700 > > >> In a boot over the network environment, request_firmware() will not be >> granted >> access to the file system. >> > > This is not true, first of all. It can be built into the kernel image > via CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL. > I missed this one. > Second of all, there is initrd. > > There are NO EXCUSES for not using request_firmware() at this point. > Fair enough. I'll fix the driver to use request_firmware(). Cheers, Divy