Re: 2.6.17-mm6

[Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>]

> Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 12:50:26 +0200
>> "Michal Piotrowski" <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 03/07/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
>>>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.17/2.6.17-mm6/
>>>>
>>> Something is missing in drivers/base/firmware_class.c?
>>>
>>> WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.17-mm6/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.ko
>>> needs unknown symbol release_firmware
>>> WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.17-mm6/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.ko
>>> needs unknown symbol request_firmware
>>> WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.17-mm6/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.ko
>>> needs unknown symbol release_firmware
>>> WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.17-mm6/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.ko
>>> needs unknown symbol request_firmware
>>>
>> Presumably you'll need CONFIG_FW_LOADER?
>>
> 
> Yes, thanks. How about this patch?
> 

Here is an updated version of this patch.

Regards,
Michal

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Michal K. K. Piotrowski
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Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>

diff -uprN -X linux-mm/Documentation/dontdiff linux-mm-clean/arch/i386/Kconfig linux-mm/arch/i386/Kconfig
--- linux-mm-clean/arch/i386/Kconfig	2006-07-03 12:35:16.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-mm/arch/i386/Kconfig	2006-07-03 14:07:15.000000000 +0200
@@ -399,9 +399,9 @@ config X86_REBOOTFIXUPS

 config MICROCODE
 	tristate "/dev/cpu/microcode - Intel IA32 CPU microcode support"
+	depends on FW_LOADER
 	---help---
-	  If you say Y here and also to "/dev file system support" in the
-	  'File systems' section, you will be able to update the microcode on
+	  If you say Y here, you will be able to update the microcode on
 	  Intel processors in the IA32 family, e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II,
 	  Pentium III, Pentium 4, Xeon etc.  You will obviously need the
 	  actual microcode binary data itself which is not shipped with the