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Subject: Re: [PATCH] bnx2: update bnx2-mips-09 firmware to
 bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
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On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 14:04 +0100, Chris Webb wrote:
> Commit c2c20ef43d00 "bnx2: Update driver to use new mips firmware"
> updated the bnx2 driver to use bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b in place of
> bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1a, but didn't replace the copy of bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1a
> in firmware/bnx2/ with the new version.
> 
> This means that the bnx2 driver stopped working altogether for users who
> use CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL to compile firmware together with drivers
> into their kernel, rather than having a runtime firmware loader.
> 
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
> ---

Have you read firmware/README.AddingFirmware ?