From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Henrik Carlqvist <hc1@poolhem.se>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tristate and bool not enogh for Kconfig anymore
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:32:19 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <471C7C33.4090003@ums.usu.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071022101107.GA20690@infradead.org>
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 02:42:38PM +0200, Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
>> I think there is a need for Kconfig to specify that a functionality could
>> be built as a module or not built at all.
>>
>> Some drivers require that firmware is loaded when the driver is
>> initialized. The kernel has functionalities for this by using a userspace
>> program. However, this userspace program is only usable from modules and
>> not during boot while any initrd or any other file system has not yet been
>> mounted and yet less any processes started.
>
> That's wrong. You can load firmware from the initramfs even if the
> driver is built in. There is no valid reason why a driver shouldn't
> be allowed to be built in.
Could you please explain how this is supposed to work?
As far as I understand, the kernel initializes all built-in drivers, and
only then starts /init in initramfs (which is then supposed to start
udevd and load firmware) - but that's too late.
--
Alexander E. Patrakov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-22 10:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-20 11:57 [PATCH] Kconfig bug Nick Warne
2007-10-20 12:42 ` tristate and bool not enogh for Kconfig anymore Henrik Carlqvist
2007-10-20 19:17 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-20 21:56 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-10-21 4:47 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-10-21 10:24 ` Henrik Carlqvist
2007-10-21 16:45 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-10-21 20:42 ` Henrik Carlqvist
2007-10-21 21:03 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-22 0:47 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-10-22 3:14 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-10-22 4:42 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-10-27 23:37 ` Roman Zippel
2007-10-22 10:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-22 10:32 ` Alexander E. Patrakov [this message]
2007-10-22 10:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-22 11:27 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2007-10-22 12:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-22 13:18 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2007-10-22 11:46 ` Helge Hafting
2007-10-22 21:50 ` Henrik Carlqvist
2007-10-27 12:26 ` [PATCH] Kconfig bug Nick Warne
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