Subject: Re: [RFC Patch] netxen: remove firmware exports

From: Cong Wang <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:52:14 +0800

On 08/19/10 17:12, Amit Salecha wrote:
>> netxen_nic driver can store firmwares on flash, and get them porperly and
>> dynamically, so the firmwares may not appear in /lib/firmware/. However, netxen_nic
>> still exports these firmwares via modinfo, this makes our script which parses
>> modinfo output fail.
>
> NX_UNIFIED_ROMIMAGE_NAME(phanfw.bin) is already submitted and we won't submit any other fw files.
>
>> -MODULE_FIRMWARE(NX_P2_MN_ROMIMAGE_NAME);
>> -MODULE_FIRMWARE(NX_P3_CT_ROMIMAGE_NAME);
>> -MODULE_FIRMWARE(NX_P3_MN_ROMIMAGE_NAME);
>
> It's not compulsory to submit firmware files which are exported (MODULE_FIRMWARE).
> I am leaving this upto David to decide about this patch.
>

Okay. David, do you want me to submit an updated patch?

Thanks!

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