From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: divy@chelsio.com
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
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:00:50 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090603.200050.146284422.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A27311D.7070400@chelsio.com>
From: Divy Le Ray <divy@chelsio.com>
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.
Second of all, there is initrd.
There are NO EXCUSES for not using request_firmware() at this point.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-04 3:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-29 7:58 [PATCH net-next 1/2] cxgb3: move away from LLTX Divy Le Ray
2009-05-29 7:58 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] cxgb3: Add Aeluros 2020 phy support Divy Le Ray
2009-05-30 3:21 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-06-01 10:53 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-06-04 2:27 ` Divy Le Ray
2009-06-04 3:00 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-06-04 3:05 ` Divy Le Ray
2009-05-29 8:57 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] cxgb3: move away from LLTX David Miller
2009-05-29 20:28 ` Divy Le Ray
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