Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762176AbXIUTdV (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:33:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761256AbXIUTdJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:33:09 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:60955 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753953AbXIUTdI (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:33:08 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Denys Vlasenko Cc: David Miller , jeff@garzik.org, mchan@broadcom.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] bnx2: factor out gzip unpacker In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:18:06 BST." <200709212018.06553.vda.linux@googlemail.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <200709211201.24475.vda.linux@googlemail.com> <200709211905.23946.vda.linux@googlemail.com> <15775.1190399812@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <200709212018.06553.vda.linux@googlemail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1190403178_2846P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:32:58 -0400 Message-ID: <4075.1190403178@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1245 Lines: 37 --==_Exmh_1190403178_2846P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:18:06 BST, Denys Vlasenko said: > On Friday 21 September 2007 19:36, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > > Should this be redone to use the existing firmware loading framework to > > load the firmware instead? > > Not in every case. > > For example, bnx2 maintainer says that driver and > firmware are closely tied for his driver. IOW: you upgrade kernel > and your NIC is not working anymore. > > Another argument is to make kernel be able to bring up NICs > without needing firmware images in initramfs/initrd/hard drive. OK, I can live with "considered and decided against". :) --==_Exmh_1190403178_2846P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFG9BxqcC3lWbTT17ARAowoAJ93dHExLCVbs4nP4CWw59I0oo83ewCg1wRn JawoiXIYnbdoq13TpOB5vl4= =hhMn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1190403178_2846P-- - 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/