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?

Regards,
Michal

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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 13:26:51.000000000 +0200
@@ -399,6 +399,7 @@ 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