Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 2 Jun 2008 11:41:56 +0300 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | [RFC: 2.6 patch] always enable FW_LOADER unless EMBEDDED=y |
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James Bottomley recently discovered that we have {request,release}_firmware() dummies for the case of the actual functions not being available and has a fix for the bug that was actually causing build errors for built-in users with CONFIG_FW_LOADER=m.
But now missing selects on FW_LOADER are no longer visible at compile-time at all and can become runtime problems.
FW_LOADER is infrastructure with relatively smalll codesize we can safely enable for everyone, and only for people who really need small kernels (and can be expected to know what they are doing) it matters being able to disable it.
This patch therefore always sets FW_LOADER=y and allows users only to disable it with EMBEDDED=y.
As a bonus, we can now get rid of all "select FW_LOADER" plus the due to it required "depends on HOTPLUG" which removes a bit of complexity from our Kconfig files.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
--- 462ee1ceb263f523b6f4e3bd30a0f63810f05c67 diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig index d7da109..629e255 100644 --- a/drivers/base/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig @@ -27,8 +27,9 @@ config PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD If unsure say Y here. config FW_LOADER - tristate "Userspace firmware loading support" + tristate "Userspace firmware loading support" if EMBEDDED depends on HOTPLUG + default y ---help--- This option is provided for the case where no in-kernel-tree modules require userspace firmware loading support, but a module built outside
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