Alan Cox wrote:
For example, bnx2 maintainer says that driver and
firmware are closely tied for his driver. IOW: you upgrade kernel
and your NIC is not working anymore.
Another argument is to make kernel be able to bring up NICs
without needing firmware images in initramfs/initrd/hard drive.
dgrs should be using the request_firmware interface. Actually dgrs is
probably a good candidate for /dev/null
According to an earlier thread, dgrs was never really maintained,
written for hardware that was never really distributed widely, and very
likely hasn't had users in years... if ever.
If that picture is accurate (it's a story I was told), then I am
definitely queueing up a deletion patch.
Jeff
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