Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756698AbcKKNvv (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2016 08:51:51 -0500 Received: from mx1.molgen.mpg.de ([141.14.17.9]:46943 "EHLO mx1.molgen.mpg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750714AbcKKNvu (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2016 08:51:50 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Revert "bnx2: Reset device during driver initialization" To: Baoquan He , netdev@vger.kernel.org References: <1478871995-29652-1-git-send-email-bhe@redhat.com> <1478871995-29652-2-git-send-email-bhe@redhat.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dept-GELinuxNICDev@cavium.com, rasesh.mody@cavium.com, harish.patil@cavium.com, frank@undermydesk.org, jsr@dex.edzone.net, jroedel@suse.de, dyoung@redhat.com From: Paul Menzel Message-ID: Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 14:51:47 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1478871995-29652-2-git-send-email-bhe@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 720 Lines: 27 Dear Baoquan, On 11/11/16 14:46, Baoquan He wrote: > This reverts commit 3e1be7ad2d38c6bd6aeef96df9bd0a7822f4e51c. Thanks a lot. > When people build bnx2 driver into kernel, it will fail to detect > and load firmware because firmware is contained in initramfs and > initramfs has not been uncompressed yet during do_initcalls. So > revert commit 3e1be7a and work out a new way in the later patch. Just to note, that the other reason is, that in some installations people don?t have the firmware in initramfs at all or don?t use an initramfs. > Signed-off-by: Baoquan He Please mark this for inclusion into the stable Linux kernel. Acked-by: Paul Menzel Thanks, Paul