Re: A proposal - binary

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 03:56:17PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 12:36:00PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 
>  > > That is good to know.  But there is a kernel option which doesn't make 
>  > > much sense in that case:
>  > > 
>  > > [*] Select only drivers that don't need compile-time external firmware
>  > 
>  > No, that is very different.  That option is present if you don't want to
>  > build some firmware images from the source that is present in the kernel
>  > tree, and instead, use the pre-built stuff that is also present in the
>  > kernel tree.
> 
> You're describing PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD.  The text Zach quoted is from
> STANDALONE, which is something else completely.  That allows us to not
> build drivers that pull in things from /etc and the like during compile.
> (Whoever thought that was a good idea?)

Oops, sorry, you are right.  Yeah, some of those alsa driver look for
files in /etc when building, very strange...

Either way it's not what I think Zach was thinking it was about.

thanks,

greg k-h