Re: [RFC v1] tree-wide: remove "select FW_LOADER" uses

Takashi Iwai
2015-05-22T08:44:18Z

At Fri, 22 May 2015 10:17:48 +0200,
Paul Bolle wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2015-05-22 at 09:11 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
> > > One thing I forgot last night: what about randconfigs? All that
> > > functionality which selects FW_LOADER, won't boot anymore, right? I
> > > mean, there are provisions to build fine even with FW_LOADER unset but
> > > if you want to boot-test those kernels, you will artificially fail due
> > > to missing request_firmware* things...
>
> Luis also tried to explain to me that disabling FW_LOADER shouldn't make
> the build fail. (And, of course, we could decide to not care about
> randconfig builds that have EXPERT set. Maybe we could even special case
> EXPERT in randconfig. But that would make randconfig builds less useful.
> That's a separate issue, anyhow.)

But FW_LOADER is a tristate, so it might be inconsistent if selected
randomly? Luis' patch doesn't add depends but just removes select.

Takashi