Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:00:22 -0700 (PDT)
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       bastian@waldi.eu.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bnx2 - use request_firmware()
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 07:41:32 +0100

> On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:08:56 -0400
> > Where is this enormous pain associated with tg3's compiled-in firmware? 
> >   It's been quite convenient.
> 
> How many kernel updates do you think all the worlds users and
> distributors have transferred. How much bandwidth and time do you think
> that cost ?

Sometimes we pay a price for being able to sleep at night.

How many cpus in the world have burned useless cycles computing the
SHA1 checksum of some file's contents for GIT :-)

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