From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, Jack Lo <jlo@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: A proposal - binary
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 15:56:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060803195617.GD16927@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060803193600.GA14858@kroah.com>
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?)
Dave
--
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-03 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-03 10:14 A proposal - binary Zachary Amsden
2006-08-03 11:16 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-03 12:16 ` Antonio Vargas
2006-08-03 15:17 ` Rik van Riel
2006-08-03 16:05 ` Chris Wright
2006-08-03 17:57 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-03 18:29 ` Antonio Vargas
2006-08-03 18:47 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-03 18:08 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-03 19:03 ` Greg KH
2006-08-03 19:14 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-03 19:36 ` Greg KH
2006-08-03 19:56 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2006-08-03 19:59 ` Greg KH
2006-08-03 20:25 ` Options depending on STANDALONE Adrian Bunk
2006-08-03 20:28 ` Greg KH
2006-08-03 20:41 ` Dave Jones
2006-08-03 23:40 ` [v4l-dvb-maintainer] " Trent Piepho
2006-08-05 10:51 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-06 11:18 ` Oliver Endriss
2006-08-13 16:36 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-14 21:15 ` Trent Piepho
2006-08-27 21:45 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-03 19:48 ` A proposal - binary linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-08-04 6:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-03 21:03 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-03 13:21 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-03 20:29 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-08-03 21:12 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-03 21:27 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-03 15:35 ` Rik van Riel
2006-08-03 18:36 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-05 10:45 ` Pavel Machek
2006-08-06 22:45 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-06 22:59 ` Greg KH
2006-08-08 0:12 ` Pavel Machek
2006-08-08 0:42 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-09 7:43 ` Pavel Machek
2006-08-03 19:06 ` Greg KH
2006-08-03 19:26 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-03 20:01 ` Greg KH
2006-08-03 21:41 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-03 22:33 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-03 22:30 ` Greg KH
2006-08-03 22:49 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-03 22:31 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-03 23:30 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-03 23:40 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-04 10:21 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-04 14:34 ` Theodore Tso
2006-08-05 0:06 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-08-04 8:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-04 2:52 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-04 4:18 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-04 5:04 ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-04 5:53 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-04 7:04 ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-04 7:21 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-04 8:29 ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-04 16:57 ` David Lang
2006-08-04 18:38 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-04 18:46 ` Antonio Vargas
2006-08-04 19:06 ` David Lang
2006-08-04 19:26 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-04 19:45 ` David Lang
2006-08-04 20:11 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-04 20:31 ` David Lang
2006-08-04 21:26 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-04 21:40 ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2006-08-04 22:00 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-04 22:45 ` David Lang
2006-08-04 19:45 ` Jeff Dike
2006-08-04 19:49 ` David Lang
2006-08-04 21:46 ` Jeff Dike
2006-08-04 22:40 ` David Lang
2006-08-04 5:40 ` Chris Wright
2006-08-04 6:28 ` Antonio Vargas
2006-08-04 7:01 ` Chris Wright
2006-08-04 7:19 ` Antonio Vargas
2006-08-04 7:37 ` Chris Wright
2006-08-04 18:34 ` Chris Wright
2006-08-04 20:41 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-04 20:52 ` Chris Wright
2006-08-04 21:26 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-05 1:14 ` James Bottomley
2006-08-05 5:37 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-05 10:42 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-05 11:50 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-04 22:01 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-04 22:39 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-04 22:52 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-04 22:43 ` David Lang
2006-08-05 10:47 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-05 11:57 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-05 1:30 ` James Bottomley
2006-08-05 4:33 ` Zachary Amsden
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