Re: [PATCH 1/2] bnx2: factor out gzip unpacker

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:18:06 BST, Denys Vlasenko said:

On Friday 21 September 2007 19:36, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

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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". :)