linux-kernel - Re: [Linux-ATM-General] [PATCH] firmware: convert Ambassador ATM driver to request

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Date:	Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:54:38 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	"Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)" <chas@....nrl.navy.mil>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-atm-general@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ATM-General] [PATCH] firmware: convert Ambassador ATM
	driver to request_firmware()

On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 09:59 -0400, Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR) wrote:
> In message <1214832072.10393.342.camel@...c.infradead.org>,David Woodhouse writ
> es:
> >On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 09:15 -0400, Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR) wrote:
> >> In message <1214831362.10393.340.camel@...c.infradead.org>,David Woodhouse w
> >rit
> >> es:
> >> >And wasn't it sba200e_ecd.bin ? 
> >> 
> >> oops.  sparc is big endian.  adding the const we have...
> >
> >You probably still want the ifdefs for MODULE_FIRMWARE().
> 
> i removed the #ifdef's from around MODULE_LICENSE().  there shouldnt
> be any need for #ifdef's around MODULE_FIRMWARE() either.

Unless you put #ifdef CONFIG_SBUS around the
MODULE_FIRMWARE("sba200e_ecd.bin") you will be requesting that firmware
even on non-sbus machines. Likewise little-endian vs. big-endian on PCI.

-- 
dwmw2

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