bnx2: don't request firmware when there's no userspace.
authorfrançois romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:36:52 +0000 (00:36 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 3 Oct 2011 18:09:10 +0000 (14:09 -0400)
The firmware is cached during the first successful call to open() and
released once the network device is unregistered. The driver uses the
cached firmware between open() and unregister_netdev().

It's similar to 953a12cc2889d1be92e80a2d0bab5ffef4942300 but the
firmware is mandatory.

Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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