From: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@wbc•net.sa>
To: netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: kernel 3.3, regression, bnx2 firmware missing in tar.bz2
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:31:06 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F67B3AA.9070900@wbc.net.sa> (raw)
Hi
Just loaded to 2.6.39 machine newest 3.3 kernel and got dead network
interface:
Mar 20 03:28:37 localhost kernel: bnx2: Can't load firmware file
"bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw"
On one side i agree that firmware can have non-GPL license, but at any
case while it is working in old kernel, if it is dead in new - and it is
very bad. Just checked commit
Actually i am expecting to have working network interfaces with
downloaded tar.bz2 of stable kernel release, especially if it was
working before, otherwise it is plain regression. Or i am wrong?
Sure i know how to use git, but it is non-trivial to find about git tree
with this firmware in git.kernel.org, nothing mentioned in
documentation. It will be perfect, if make process at least will try to
fetch firmwares from git or note about it at end of compiling.
Thanks.
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