Re: 2.6.28-git8: tg3 doesn't work due to firmware not loading(-git7 is ok)

[Matt Carlson]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 01:39:29PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:24:58 +0000
> 
> > Other drivers will load the firmware later, at the time the device is
> > brought up. This means that even if you build the driver into the kernel
> > without its firmware, it can still request the firmware later, when you
> > try to start _using_ it. And when the file system is available.
> 
> For example, for mounting an NFS root using that device.... Oh, will I
> need an initramfs for that once you pull the firmware-in-kernel
> option?
> 
> To me, device probe is in fact the place to fail firmware discovery
> for networking devices.  Because such a failure can mean you can't
> mount your root filesystem.

David, is this the direction you want to take the fix?  I'm sitting on
a patch that elaborates on David Woodhouse's work which moves the
request_firmware call to tg3_open().  Before I posted it for comment,
I wanted to make sure the patch is moving in the right direction.

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