> 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
Alan
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