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From: "Jaswinder Singh Rajput" <jaswinderlinux@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -net-next 3/4] firmware: convert tg3 driver to request_firmware()
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 19:42:37 +0530
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On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@hartkopp.net> wrote:
> 077f849de42e58172e25ccb24df4c1a13e82420c ("firmware: convert tg3 driver to
> request_firmware()")
>
> and i discovered that
>
> 1. I needed to compile the tg3 driver as *module* now as it was not able to
> read the firmware when built-in.
>

Please compile it as build in.

David Woodhouse: Do you have any plans to support firmware by using modules.

Thanks,
JSR.