Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758443AbZASTVO (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:21:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752185AbZASTU7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:20:59 -0500 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:39200 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752182AbZASTU6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:20:58 -0500 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Jesse Brandeburg Subject: Re: [2.6.29-rc2 regression] e100: netconsole not functional because of missing firmware Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:20:34 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.3 (Linux/2.6.29-rc2-tst; KDE/4.1.3; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Andrey Borzenkov , e1000-devel@lists.soutceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Woodhouse References: <200901171908.28533.arvidjaar@mail.ru> <4807377b0901191030g27efac79rbd39501eb2eea4cb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4807377b0901191030g27efac79rbd39501eb2eea4cb@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200901192020.35116.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1251 Lines: 30 On Monday 19 January 2009, Jesse Brandeburg wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Andrey Borzenkov 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=y > > Hm, I wonder if we couldn't have netconsole=y select > CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL in Kconfig > > the arguments as to why the firmware was split out of the drivers have > already been made on this list. Not that I agree with them, but the > decision has been made and we're (network devs) going along with it. Still, if that leads to functional regressions, like this one, we need to do something about it IMO. David? Thanks, Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/