On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:04:22 PST, David Miller said:
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> From: "Alessandro Suardi" <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:30:40 +0100
> 
> > Clearly the requirement changed in -git8, AFAICS.
> 
> Because -git8 is where the firmware requirement got added.
> 
> If you build the TG3 driver statically into your kernel,
> the only way to get the firmware properly loaded is to
> enable that CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL option.

Maybe this is one of those cases where we actually do want a SELECT?

	select FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL if TIGON3=y

or similar?