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From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
To: "Rick Jones" <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Cc: "Bastian Blank" <waldi@debian.org>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bnx2: Use request_firmware()
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:11:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1237857085.18617.47.camel@HP1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49C825EC.50100@hp.com>


On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 17:14 -0700, Rick Jones wrote:
> Michael Chan wrote:
> > May be I'll break up each firmware section into a
> > different file and the file name will be updated with each version.
> > This will allow different sections to be updated separately and older
> > kernels will still have access to the older firmware.
> 
> Is that really necessary?  It is enough "fun" finding just the one firmware file 
> as it is.

If all the firmware sections are in the same file, much of the firmware
file will be duplicated in a new file when we update just one section.



  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-24  1:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-19 22:29 [PATCH] bnx2: Use request_firmware() Ben Hutchings
2009-03-19 23:04 ` Michael Chan
2009-03-19 23:25   ` Bastian Blank
2009-03-20 22:50     ` David Miller
2009-03-23 21:47       ` Michael Chan
2009-03-23 22:02         ` David Miller
2009-03-23 22:29         ` Bastian Blank
2009-03-23 23:24           ` Michael Chan
2009-03-24  0:14             ` Rick Jones
2009-03-24  1:11               ` Michael Chan [this message]
2009-03-24  1:26                 ` Rick Jones
2009-03-24  1:44                   ` Michael Chan
2009-03-24  4:27                   ` Ben Hutchings
2009-03-24  7:42                 ` Bastian Blank
2009-03-24 15:27                   ` Michael Chan
2009-03-23 22:32         ` Bastian Blank
2009-03-23 23:28           ` Michael Chan
2009-04-01 18:01             ` Michael Chan
2009-04-02  8:05               ` David Miller
     [not found] <1238778120-8132-1-git-send-email-mchan@broadcom.com>
2009-04-04 23:51 ` David Miller

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