The firmware patch for the Saturn PHY fixes a bug, but is not absolutely essential. And its licence is unclear, so it is not included in all distributions. Just log an error message and continue if it is missing or invalid. References: http://bugs.debian.org/712674 Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Tested-by: Jose Andres Arias Velichko <Andres.Arias@PaisLinux.net> (against 3.2) Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>