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Subject: Re: Qlogic/FC firmware
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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   From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
   Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 15:45:26 +0100 (BST)
   
   For the other 99.9% of the userbase we saved 128Kbytes of ram and improved
   reliability by not loading half tested firmeware on them.

We saved nothing, __init_data the firmware, problem solved.

If the firmware was out of date, update it to a known "Qlogic stamp of
approval" version.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com