Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758685AbYGDN3R (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 09:29:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758335AbYGDN2v (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 09:28:51 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:45133 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758135AbYGDN2u (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 09:28:50 -0400 Message-ID: <486E2589.8090304@garzik.org> Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:28:41 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Woodhouse CC: Takashi Iwai , Hugh Dickins , KOSAKI Motohiro , mchan@broadcom.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" References: <20080703020236.adaa51fa.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080703205548.D6E5.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> <486CC440.9030909@garzik.org> <1215177471.10393.753.camel@pmac.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <1215177471.10393.753.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.4 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 765 Lines: 22 David Woodhouse wrote: > 3. Look at making 'make modules_install' installl the firmware required > by the modules it's installing, so you don't even need to do > _anything_ new. Anything that works with existing build processes would be a positive step, preventing loads of build&test regressions. This does not change the need, of course, to default this firmware install stuff to 'off', and allow distros to turn it on when they're ready (as Alan, Ted, and others have suggested in this thread). Jeff -- 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/