# Re: \[bug?\] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3\_tso.bin"

- From: Takashi Iwai \<hidden\>
- Date: 2008-07-04 14:24:06 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2008/07/1120988
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-mm/2008/07/1120896/t.md

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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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