From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jesse Brandeburg Subject: Re: [2.6.29-rc2 regression] e100: netconsole not functional because of missing firmware Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:30:01 -0800 Message-ID: <4807377b0901191030g27efac79rbd39501eb2eea4cb@mail.gmail.com> References: <200901171908.28533.arvidjaar@mail.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: e1000-devel@lists.soutceforge.net, "Rafael J. Wysocki" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Andrey Borzenkov Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200901171908.28533.arvidjaar@mail.ru> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Andrey Borzenkov 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.