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

- From: Jeff Garzik \<hidden\>
- Date: 2008-07-07 19:16:50 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2008/07/1122072
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-mm/2008/07/1120896/t/2.md

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Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:57:56 -0400
> Jeff Garzik [ref] wrote:
>
>> Alan Cox wrote:
>>>> When the firmware travels with the module, as it does today in tg3, bnx2 and others, is the most reliable system available.  The simplest, the least amount of "parts", the easiest to upgrade, the best method to guarantee driver/firmware version matches.  It works wonderfully today.
>>>>
>>>> Is it difficult to see why someone might want to keep the same attributes?
>>> No I can see that, should be a simple matter of sending David patches.
>> Isn't it David's obligation not to remove a highly reliable, working system?
>
> I don't see why it should be David's job to add every conceivable feature
> to the code.

Just whose job is it, exactly, to avoid regressions?

Why is it unfair to ask a patch author not to break stuff?


> And this is the pot calling the kettle black. You badly
> broke Marvell PATA support by setting the Marvell SATA devices to AHCI. I
> note you've still not fixed that after some months.

Even if we accept that at face value, which I don't (it's more a driver load order issue), that is no excuse for further regressions.

	Jeff


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