From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] starfire: Clean up properly if firmware loading fails Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:28:39 -0800 Message-ID: <20100125192839.7eaceb2b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20100125170816.db9435ed.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1264471333.373.349.camel@localhost> <20100125181508.790010cb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1264473168.373.354.camel@localhost> <4B5E5A5F.90608@moffatt.org.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ben Hutchings , netdev@vger.kernel.org, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, Alan Cox , stable@kernel.org, "David S. Miller" To: Michael Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:40717 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751437Ab0AZD3r (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:29:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4B5E5A5F.90608@moffatt.org.nz> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:58:39 +1300 Michael wrote: > Hi guys, > > I think I'm the submitter that Ben is referring to. > > So that could be the answer to the kernel BUG I have reported, but I > don't think that it will answer why the interface doesn't come up... or > does it? >>From this: Jan 21 05:08:26 172 kernel: starfire: Failed to load firmware "adaptec/starfire_rx.bin" Jan 21 05:08:26 172 kernel: device eth4 entered promiscuous mode Jan 21 05:08:26 172 kernel: starfire 0000:03:06.0: firmware: requesting adaptec/starfire_rx.bin Jan 21 05:08:26 172 kernel: starfire: Failed to load firmware "adaptec/starfire_rx.bin" Jan 21 05:08:26 172 kernel: device eth5 entered promiscuous mode Jan 21 05:08:26 172 kernel: starfire 0000:03:07.0: firmware: requesting adaptec/starfire_rx.bin Jan 21 05:08:26 172 kernel: starfire: Failed to load firmware "adaptec/starfire_rx.bin" Jan 21 05:08:26 172 kernel: device eth6 entered promiscuous mode Jan 21 05:08:26 172 kernel: starfire 0000:04:04.0: firmware: requesting adaptec/starfire_rx.bin I assume that it can't find the firmware?