| Date | Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:23:46 +0200 | From | Takashi Iwai <> | Subject | Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" |
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At Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:10:14 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 02:27:15PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > > That's the way it has been for a _long_ time anyway, for any modern > > driver which uses request_firmware(). The whole point about modules is > > _modularity_. Yes, that means that sometimes they depend on _other_ > > modules, or on firmware. > > > > The scripts which handle that kind of thing have handled inter-module > > dependencies, and MODULE_FIRMWARE(), for a long time now. > > FYI, at least Ubuntu Hardy's initramfs does not seem to deal with > firmware for modules correctly.
Neither SUSE's mkinitrd. (Hannes, please correct if I'm wrong...)
Takashi
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