From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: 2.6.28-git8: tg3 doesn't work due to firmware not loading (-git7 is ok) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:41:38 +0000 Message-ID: <1231713698.25018.700.camel@macbook.infradead.org> References: <1231676698.25018.147.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20090111.133929.57600645.davem@davemloft.net> <1231711347.25018.658.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20090111.140559.126980927.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, alessandro.suardi@gmail.com, jaswinderlinux@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:52401 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750893AbZAKWmF (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:42:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090111.140559.126980927.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 14:05 -0800, David Miller wrote: > So what used to work out of the box by typing make now > will have all kinds of strange depencies, right? > > This is a regression, no matter how you spin it, in my > book. I know you think that, but I disagree. Yes, it's slightly less convenient for a small handful of older drivers, but in the general case it's a massive improvement -- because now we can have a single canonical location to collect _all_ the firmware that is redistributable, for use with the kernel. And we've already started adding a whole bunch of new firmwares to that repository. -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation