From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
To: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [2.6.29-rc2 regression] e100: netconsole not functional because of missing firmware
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:43:00 +0300
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On 19 =D1=8F=D0=BD=D0=B2=D0=B0=D1=80=D1=8F 2009 21:30:01 Jesse Brandeburg w=
rote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>=20
wrote:
> > [    2.008509] e100: eth0: e100_request_firmware: Failed to load
> > firmware "e100/d101m_ucode.bin": -22
> > [    2.010461] netconsole: failed to open eth0
> > [    2.010996] netconsole: cleaning up
> >
> > This has been working all the time without requiring any external
> > firmware to be present. Why it suddenly refuses to work now?
>
> to use netconsole you probably need to set config option
> CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=3Dy
>

Yes, I already figured that much :) Unfortunately, there seems to be a=20
bug that prevents compiling firmware if src !=3D obj. At least it does not=
=20
work for me.

> Hm, I wonder if we couldn't have netconsole=3Dy select
> CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL in Kconfig
>

That probably is overkill; unfortunately I am afraid there is no way to=20
make kconfig automatically select correct firmware in case e100 is built=20
in. =20

Thank you!

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