Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 13:52:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: david@lang.hm
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
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       mchan@broadcom.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
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Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin"
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On Sun, 6 Jul 2008, David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 13:17 -0700, david@lang.hm wrote:
>> if David W were to make it possible to not use the load_firmware() call to
>> userspace and build the firmware into the driver (be it in a monolithic
>> kernel or the module that contains the driver)
>
> You _can_ build the firmware into the kernel.

right, but not into a module. you have half of the answer in place, but 
not all of it.

David Lang
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