linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 patch] always enable FW

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Date:	Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:24:50 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] always enable FW_LOADER unless EMBEDDED=y

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 07:04:08PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 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 small 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 then get rid of all "select FW_LOADER" plus the due 
> to it required "depends on HOTPLUG" which removes some complexity from 
> our Kconfig files.

Well, we can't get rid of that if EMBEDDED is set, right?

You sent this as an RFC before, I thought people said to just fix up all
of the dependancies with drivers that needed FW_LOADER to be enabled,
that would be easier, right?

thanks,

greg k-h
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