From: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@newgolddream.dyndns.info>
To: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: CONFIG_FW_LOADER
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:01:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1238929275.6511.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1238905089.19390.7.camel@violet>
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 06:18 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> 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().
>
OK. Guess the issue is that my module doesn't select this. I'll patch
that.
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2009-04-04 18:05 CONFIG_FW_LOADER Adrian McMenamin
2009-04-05 4:18 ` CONFIG_FW_LOADER Marcel Holtmann
2009-04-05 11:01 ` Adrian McMenamin [this message]
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