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From: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@gmail.com>
To: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Cc: e1000-devel@lists.soutceforge.net,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.29-rc2 regression] e100: netconsole not functional because of missing firmware
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:30:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4807377b0901191030g27efac79rbd39501eb2eea4cb@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200901171908.28533.arvidjaar@mail.ru>

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru> wrote:
> [    2.008509] e100: eth0: e100_request_firmware: Failed to load
> firmware "e100/d101m_ucode.bin": -22
> [    2.010461] netconsole: failed to open eth0
> [    2.010996] netconsole: cleaning up
>
> This has been working all the time without requiring any external
> firmware to be present. Why it suddenly refuses to work now?

to use netconsole you probably need to set config option
CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y

Hm, I wonder if we couldn't have netconsole=y select
CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL in Kconfig

the arguments as to why the firmware was split out of the drivers have
already been made on this list.  Not that I agree with them, but the
decision has been made and we're (network devs) going along with it.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-19 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-17 16:08 [2.6.29-rc2 regression] e100: netconsole not functional because of missing firmware Andrey Borzenkov
2009-01-19 18:30 ` Jesse Brandeburg [this message]
2009-01-19 18:43   ` Andrey Borzenkov
2009-01-19 19:20   ` Rafael J. Wysocki

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