From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
alessandro.suardi@gmail.com, jaswinderlinux@gmail.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.28-git8: tg3 doesn't work due to firmware not loading (-git7 is ok)
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:56:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1231692963.25018.422.camel@macbook.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58054.1231692502@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 11:48 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> One unanswered question: What do we expect the system to do if they have this
> patch, TIGON3=y, FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=n, and configure a netconsole for boot
> messages? I'm *hoping* the answer is "the netconsole doesn't come up at boot,
> but can be re-enabled via the /sys/kernel/config/netconsole interface after
> you've done an 'ifconfig eth0 up' or similar, or do a 'modprobe netconsole'.
>
> Those seem like reasonable semantics to me - anybody got a different opinion?
If netconsole follows the normal ->open() path, that sounds like what'll
happen.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-11 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-07 14:24 2.6.28-git8: tg3 doesn't work due to firmware not loading (-git7 is ok) Alessandro Suardi
2009-01-08 4:03 ` Alessandro Suardi
2009-01-08 6:12 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-01-08 20:33 ` Alessandro Suardi
2009-01-08 20:53 ` David Miller
2009-01-09 17:30 ` Alessandro Suardi
2009-01-09 22:04 ` David Miller
2009-01-09 22:29 ` Alessandro Suardi
2009-01-11 11:10 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-11 12:08 ` David Miller
2009-01-11 12:24 ` David Woodhouse
2009-01-11 12:59 ` David Woodhouse
2009-01-11 16:42 ` Alessandro Suardi
2009-01-11 16:53 ` David Woodhouse
2009-01-11 19:24 ` Alessandro Suardi
2009-01-11 19:26 ` David Woodhouse
2009-01-11 16:48 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-11 16:56 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2009-01-11 21:49 ` David Miller
2009-01-11 22:29 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-11 22:46 ` David Woodhouse
2009-01-11 21:41 ` David Miller
2009-01-12 0:10 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-12 1:39 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-12 8:13 ` David Woodhouse
2009-01-13 4:46 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-13 5:52 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-11 21:39 ` David Miller
2009-01-11 22:02 ` David Woodhouse
2009-01-11 22:05 ` David Miller
2009-01-11 22:41 ` David Woodhouse
2009-01-13 6:13 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-01-11 22:15 ` David Woodhouse
2009-01-11 22:19 ` David Miller
2009-01-13 18:39 ` Matt Carlson
2009-01-13 20:27 ` David Miller
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