Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758738AbYGDNtA (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 09:49:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753852AbYGDNst (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 09:48:49 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:49274 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753480AbYGDNst (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 09:48:49 -0400 Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" From: David Woodhouse To: Alan Cox Cc: Jeff Garzik , Andi Kleen , David Miller , tytso@mit.edu, hugh@veritas.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, mchan@broadcom.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20080704142753.27848ff8@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> References: <1215093175.10393.567.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080703173040.GB30506@mit.edu> <1215111362.10393.651.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080703.162120.206258339.davem@davemloft.net> <486D6DDB.4010205@infradead.org> <87ej6armez.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <1215177044.10393.743.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <486E2260.5050503@garzik.org> <1215178035.10393.763.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <486E2818.1060003@garzik.org> <20080704142753.27848ff8@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:48:24 +0100 Message-Id: <1215179304.10393.777.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: 883 Lines: 24 On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 14:27 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > 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. A particularly good example. I used to be able to just copy around the driver for my host controller. Now I have to copy _two_ files, so the world is going to end! Should I have insisted that we link libata statically into each and every module which uses it? (Or at least I have to copy two files _if_ I actually want to make changes to libata.ko too, which I almost never do...) -- 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/