Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 19:13:59 +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,
       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
Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin"
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> When the firmware travels with the module, as it does today in tg3, bnx2 
> and others, is the most reliable system available.  The simplest, the 
> least amount of "parts", the easiest to upgrade, the best method to 
> guarantee driver/firmware version matches.  It works wonderfully today.
> 
> Is it difficult to see why someone might want to keep the same attributes?

No I can see that, should be a simple matter of sending David patches.

Alan
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