Re: dell_rbu: Select CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER explicitly

Takashi Iwai
2013-07-09T14:43:47Z

At Tue, 9 Jul 2013 22:39:36 +0800,
Ming Lei wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> > At Tue, 9 Jul 2013 16:43:30 +0800,
> >> Actually from view of distribution, dell rbu has to be compiled in, then
> >> no code size can be saved any more, which means looks the introduced
> >> option in this patch isn't necessary.
> >
> > Well, but it means that there is no way not to compile user-helper
> > mode code in firmware_class.c. In other words, in which condition,
> > request_firmware_user() will be compiled?
>
> It can be always compiled in. Basically dell rbu is always enabled in
> distributions, which means the user helper code has to be compiled in.

But how non-distro kernel disables this being built-in...?
Or do you suggest to enable the user-helper codes always built, no
matter whether it's used or not?

Takashi