On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:18:06 BST, Denys Vlasenko said: > On Friday 21 September 2007 19:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Should this be redone to use the existing firmware loading framework to > > load the firmware instead? > > Not in every case. > > For example, bnx2 maintainer says that driver and > firmware are closely tied for his driver. IOW: you upgrade kernel > and your NIC is not working anymore. > > Another argument is to make kernel be able to bring up NICs > without needing firmware images in initramfs/initrd/hard drive.
OK, I can live with "considered and decided against". :)
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