Subject: Re: 2.6.28-git8: tg3 doesn't work due to firmware not loading
 (-git7 is ok)
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, alessandro.suardi@gmail.com,
       jaswinderlinux@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       netdev@vger.kernel.org
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On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 14:05 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> So what used to work out of the box by typing make now
> will have all kinds of strange depencies, right?
> 
> This is a regression, no matter how you spin it, in my
> book.

I know you think that, but I disagree. Yes, it's slightly less
convenient for a small handful of older drivers, but in the general case
it's a massive improvement -- because now we can have a single canonical
location to collect _all_ the firmware that is redistributable, for use
with the kernel. And we've already started adding a whole bunch of new
firmwares to that repository.

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com                              Intel Corporation

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