Re: dell_rbu: Select CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER explicitly

Takashi Iwai
2013-07-09T15:24:52Z

At Tue, 9 Jul 2013 23:22:33 +0800,
Ming Lei wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 11:13 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> The only cost of built-in user helper code is ~6Kbytes code on my armv7
> >> box.
> >>
> >> If the 6KB memory does mater for this non-distro kernel, we can introduce
> >> more options.
> >
> > Well, if it doesn't matter, we don't need CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
> > either. The goal of this option is to kill the user helper code, not
> > intended as a workaround for 60 seconds stall.
>
> Actually, the Kconfig help is "Fallback user-helper invocation for
> firmware loading",
> so looks the description in help doc isn't consistent with what you wanted, :-)

There is always a secret plan for world conquer :)

Takashi