linux-kernel - Re: [patch, 2.6.26-rc2] dvb: drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/fdump firmware build error fix

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Date:	Tue, 13 May 2008 16:49:00 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Oliver Endriss <o.endriss@....de>
Cc:	Johannes Stezenbach <js@...uxtv.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
	Andrew de Quincey <adq_dvb@...skialf.net>
Subject: Re: [patch, 2.6.26-rc2] dvb: drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/fdump
	firmware build error fix


* Oliver Endriss <o.endriss@....de> wrote:

> > > No. If randconfig deselects both STANDALONE and PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD,
> > > the same problem will happen again...
> > 
> > You can put PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y in your allrandom.config.
> 
> Sure. And without the patch you can simply add
> - STANDALONE=y or
> - DVB_AV7110_FIRMWARE=n
> to your allrandom.config. ;-)

Uhm, cart pulls horse alert. There's a reason PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD 
exists and is used by all other drivers in the tree that have a firmware 
build method. Yours is the only one that regresses.

	Ingo
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