Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758774AbXIRTWR (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:22:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754938AbXIRTV5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:21:57 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:42492 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755028AbXIRTVz (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:21:55 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:21:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20070918.122150.124083496.davem@davemloft.net> To: mchan@broadcom.com Cc: vda.linux@googlemail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: bnx2 dirver's firmware images From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1190145951.9540.230.camel@dell> References: <1190141114.9540.216.camel@dell> <20070918.112337.74737433.davem@davemloft.net> <1190145951.9540.230.camel@dell> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1.52 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 769 Lines: 19 From: "Michael Chan" Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:05:51 -0700 > The bnx2 firmware changes quite frequently. A new driver quite often > requires new firmware to work correctly. Splitting them up makes things > difficult for the user. > > The firmware in tg3 is a lot more mature and I don't expect it to > change. I think tg3 is better suited for using request_firmware(). Like I said, I think neither should change and the driver should be fully functional when built statically into the kernel. :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/