Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin"

[David Woodhouse]

On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 13:13 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 01:16:06PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > It almost never happens that you have kernel versions which _need_
> > different firmware installed. In almost all cases, the older driver will
> > continue to work just fine with the newer firmware (and its bug-fixes).
> > 
> > The ABI between driver and firmware rarely changes in such a fashion
> > that you have to update the driver in lock-step -- and even on the
> > occasions that it does, it's not hard to simply change the name of the
> > "new-style" firmware so that it doesn't stomp on the old one (Think of
> > it like an soname).
> 
> That's unfortunately not true.  There are a lot of drivers that rely
> on specific firmware versions.

Do you have examples of such?

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