Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758779AbYGDNpv (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 09:45:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754238AbYGDNph (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 09:45:37 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:58034 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754218AbYGDNpg (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 09:45:36 -0400 Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" From: David Woodhouse To: Jeff Garzik 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 In-Reply-To: <486E28BB.1030205@garzik.org> 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> <486E28BB.1030205@garzik.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:45:26 +0100 Message-Id: <1215179126.10393.771.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2 (2.22.2-2.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 816 Lines: 22 On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 09:42 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > mkinitrd and similar scripts must be updated, so that drivers that > worked prior to dwmw2's changes will continue to work after dwmw2's > changes. > If you fail to update some script somewhere, then the driver will be > copied into the initramfs, but not the firmware, with obvious results. No, mkinitrd works fine, because a whole boatload of drivers _already_ require it to work that way and have done for a long time. Either you are severely mistaken, or you are being deliberately misleading. -- dwmw2 -- 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/