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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 20:36:47 +0530
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On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@hartkopp.net> wrote:
>
> The firmware, right?!
>
> When compiling tg3 as module the request_firmware() worked fine, as the fs
> is available then.
>
> Now i went back to compiling tg3 as built-in driver and i also defined
> CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL which is also working properly. Thanks for the
> advise.
>

Yes, Good.

> Btw. the locking issue is still there:

David Miller and Jeff are right person to answer this question.

Thanks,
--
JSR