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Message-ID: <471C7C33.4090003@ums.usu.ru> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:32:19 +0600 From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@....usu.ru> To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> Cc: Henrik Carlqvist <hc1@...lhem.se>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: tristate and bool not enogh for Kconfig anymore 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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