Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin"

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:38:59 -0400

David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 13:52 -0700, [email-masked] wrote:
>> On Sun, 6 Jul 2008, David Woodhouse wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 13:17 -0700, [email-masked] wrote:
>>>> if David W were to make it possible to not use the load_firmware() call to
>>>> userspace and build the firmware into the driver (be it in a monolithic
>>>> kernel or the module that contains the driver)
>>> You _can_ build the firmware into the kernel.
>> right, but not into a module. you have half of the answer in place, but 
>> not all of it.
> 
> The useful half. If you have userspace to load modules, you have
> userspace to load firmware too.

Existing examples have already been provided where this logic fails.

	Jeff