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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:10:50 +0200
From: Tarkan Erimer <tarkan.erimer@turknet.net.tr>
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To: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
CC: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@gmail.com>,
       Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
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       David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
       David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] tg3 module problem on Linux-2.6.29-rc1-2
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Matt Carlson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 07:48:44AM -0800, Tarkan Erimer wrote:
>   
>> Tarkan Erimer wrote:
>>     
>>> Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Is this ubuntu's specific problem or you also getting these
>>>> warnings/errors on another releases.
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>> Yes,it's specific to Ubuntu's kernel build process (make-kpkg). I had 
>>> no time to try with regular kernel build process. But; if it's 
>>> necessary, I can try it out. BTW, my box is Kubuntu 8.10 with latest 
>>> updates.
>>>
>>>       
>> Now, I tried with 2.6.29-rc2-git2 and the result is same. No difference. 
>> When I have time, I'll try via regular kernel compile process to see 
>> what will be happen.
>>     
>
> Like I outlined in my previous email, this is a scripting / tools problem.
> Updating your kernel will not help.  Either the script or modinfo needs to
> be modified to somehow recognize that while the driver does make
> request_firmware() calls, the firmware resides in the kernel itself.
>
>   
I got it. Sorry for the noise.


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