Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:27:53 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
       David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, tytso@mit.edu, hugh@veritas.com,
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       mchan@broadcom.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
       netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin"
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> Why is it so difficult to see the value of KEEPING STUFF WORKING AS IT 
> WORKS TODAY?

Sure Jeff. Lets delete libata, that caused all sorts of problems when it
was being added. We could freeze on linux 1.2.13-lmp, that was a good
release - why break it ?

There are good sound reasons for having a firmware tree, the fact tg3 is
a bit of dinosaur in this area doesn't make it wrong.
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