Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758535AbYGDOYG (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:24:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754086AbYGDOXu (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:23:50 -0400 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:49206 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753416AbYGDOXt (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:23:49 -0400 Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:23:46 +0200 Message-ID: From: Takashi Iwai To: Theodore Tso Cc: David Woodhouse , Jeff Garzik , Andi Kleen , David Miller , hugh@veritas.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, mchan@broadcom.com, Hannes Reinecke , 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" In-Reply-To: <20080704141014.GA23215@mit.edu> 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> <20080704141014.GA23215@mit.edu> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.12.0 (Your Wildest Dreams) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.7 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Sanj=F2?=) APEL/10.6 Emacs/22.2 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 949 Lines: 26 At Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:10:14 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 02:27:15PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > > That's the way it has been for a _long_ time anyway, for any modern > > driver which uses request_firmware(). The whole point about modules is > > _modularity_. Yes, that means that sometimes they depend on _other_ > > modules, or on firmware. > > > > The scripts which handle that kind of thing have handled inter-module > > dependencies, and MODULE_FIRMWARE(), for a long time now. > > FYI, at least Ubuntu Hardy's initramfs does not seem to deal with > firmware for modules correctly. Neither SUSE's mkinitrd. (Hannes, please correct if I'm wrong...) Takashi -- 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/