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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@newgolddream.dyndns.info>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: CONFIG_FW_LOADER
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 06:18:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1238905089.19390.7.camel@violet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1238868348.6489.8.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Hi Adrian,

> Currently the help for this states: 
> 
> 
> CONFIG_FW_LOADER:
> This option is provided for the case where no in-kernel-tree modules
> require userspace firmware loading support, but a module built outside
> the kernel tree does.
> 
> 
> Is it just me or is this somewhat misleading? Don't all modules that
> load firmware from userspace require this?

all drivers that do use 'select FW_LOADER' and so they trigger building
this module anyway. The config option is purely if you have a driver
that is built outside the tree and wanna use request_firmware().

Regards

Marcel



  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-05  4:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-04 18:05 CONFIG_FW_LOADER Adrian McMenamin
2009-04-05  4:18 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2009-04-05 11:01   ` CONFIG_FW_LOADER Adrian McMenamin

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