bnx2 driver fails to load on Fedora Rawhide

[Andy Gospodarek]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:00:57PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 15:04 +0000, Andy Gospodarek wrote:
> > 
> > It looks like that firmware is in Linus' tree, but somehow it is not in
> > Woodhouse's linux-firmware tree.  That seems odd. 
> 
> Yeah, that's just broken. If the driver/firmware ABI changes
> incompatibly and the kernel gets updated so that it can no longer use
> the older firmware, then driver maintainers *need* to put the new
> firmware into the firmware tree so that it actually gets to users.
> 
> In this case it looks like they only updated the legacy firmware/
> directory in the kernel source itself, that people don't really use any
> more and that is going to be going away real soon now. That's not very
> useful.
> 
> Michael? Did you submit the new firmware for linux-firmware.git and I
> just missed it? If so, I apologise; please could you resend?
> 

David,

I seemed to recall that you were initially pulling (just copying with a
cronjob, iirc) files from firmware/ in Linus' tree to your
linux-firmware git tree.  That was why I was a bit confused that these
were out of sync.

I see now that the last time you did this was here:

	commit 72cf26d513496edfaaf6be7c605dd57f7b44e073
	Merge: 2d07c7d 7936fd8
	Author: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse at intel.com>
	Date:   Fri Aug 6 08:20:09 2010 +0100

	    Merge legacy kernel source firmware/ directory from 2.6.35

and that explains how we missed the bnx2 firmware changes.  Does this
mean you will not be merging from Linus going forward?

Thanks,

-andy