From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] bnx2: factor out gzip unpacker Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:33:39 -0400 Message-ID: <46F446C3.9050600@garzik.org> References: <200709211201.24475.vda.linux@googlemail.com> <200709211905.23946.vda.linux@googlemail.com> <15775.1190399812@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <200709212018.06553.vda.linux@googlemail.com> <20070921220333.3b31afb5@the-village.bc.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Denys Vlasenko , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, David Miller , mchan@broadcom.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:41974 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764757AbXIUWdq (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:33:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070921220333.3b31afb5@the-village.bc.nu> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: >> For example, bnx2 maintainer says that driver and >> firmware are closely tied for his driver. IOW: you upgrade kernel >> and your NIC is not working anymore. >> >> Another argument is to make kernel be able to bring up NICs >> without needing firmware images in initramfs/initrd/hard drive. > > dgrs should be using the request_firmware interface. Actually dgrs is > probably a good candidate for /dev/null According to an earlier thread, dgrs was never really maintained, written for hardware that was never really distributed widely, and very likely hasn't had users in years... if ever. If that picture is accurate (it's a story I was told), then I am definitely queueing up a deletion patch. Jeff