From: Bastian Blank <waldi@debian•org>
To: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom•com>
Cc: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp•com>,
"netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bnx2: Use request_firmware()
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:42:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090324074213.GA4576@wavehammer.waldi.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1237857085.18617.47.camel@HP1>
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 06:11:25PM -0700, Michael Chan wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 17:14 -0700, Rick Jones wrote:
> > Michael Chan wrote:
> > > May be I'll break up each firmware section into a
> > > different file and the file name will be updated with each version.
> > > This will allow different sections to be updated separately and older
> > > kernels will still have access to the older firmware.
> > Is that really necessary? It is enough "fun" finding just the one firmware file
> > as it is.
> If all the firmware sections are in the same file, much of the firmware
> file will be duplicated in a new file when we update just one section.
What is the advantage of this? I always saw updates to more than one
firmware at once in the past. The question is not: is it possible, but:
it is necessary.
Bastian
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Our way is peace.
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stardate 4040.7.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-24 7:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-19 22:29 [PATCH] bnx2: Use request_firmware() Ben Hutchings
2009-03-19 23:04 ` Michael Chan
2009-03-19 23:25 ` Bastian Blank
2009-03-20 22:50 ` David Miller
2009-03-23 21:47 ` Michael Chan
2009-03-23 22:02 ` David Miller
2009-03-23 22:29 ` Bastian Blank
2009-03-23 23:24 ` Michael Chan
2009-03-24 0:14 ` Rick Jones
2009-03-24 1:11 ` Michael Chan
2009-03-24 1:26 ` Rick Jones
2009-03-24 1:44 ` Michael Chan
2009-03-24 4:27 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-03-24 7:42 ` Bastian Blank [this message]
2009-03-24 15:27 ` Michael Chan
2009-03-23 22:32 ` Bastian Blank
2009-03-23 23:28 ` Michael Chan
2009-04-01 18:01 ` Michael Chan
2009-04-02 8:05 ` David Miller
[not found] <1238778120-8132-1-git-send-email-mchan@broadcom.com>
2009-04-04 23:51 ` David Miller
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