From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: e100 firmware in 2.6.29-rc7? Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:05:41 -0700 Message-ID: <49BEB115.4050303@candelatech.com> References: <49BABF1F.9080909@candelatech.com> <49BEA4E6.1000206@candelatech.com> <1237231540.3106.9.camel@achroite> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Brandeburg, Jesse" , NetDev , dwmw2@infradead.org, e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To: Ben Hutchings Return-path: Received: from mail.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.172]:48966 "EHLO ns3.lanforge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753118AbZCPUGB (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:06:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1237231540.3106.9.camel@achroite> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Ben Hutchings wrote: >> The config & dmesg is attached. Some of the options are for patches we've >> added, and we even have a small patch in the e100 (but have had it there >> for years, so probably un-related to this). Still, I will not complain >> if you decide to ignore the report. > [...] > > Your config has CONFIG_E100=m, but CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL only > applies to firmware used by non-modular drivers. The assumption is that > once userland is capable of loading modules it is also capable of > loading firmware. Well, that's an annoyance. Would it be that hard to allow modular drivers to compile-in their FW as well? It would be a nice option for those of us trying to build portable pre-compiled kernels for various distributions and distribution versions. Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com