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Date:	Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:31:26 -0700
From:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
To:	"David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers.

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:23 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 16:53 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> so after this patchset, if i put qllogic fw in firmware/, that fw will
>> work or not...
>
> The qlogic driver already uses request_firmware(), like most modern
> drivers do. If you want to include that firmware in your kernel image
> (assuming it's in /lib/firmware already), do something like this:
>
>        CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="ql2500_fw.bin"
>        CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR=/lib/firmware
>
> Then it'll find that firmware file and pull it in to your kernel, and
> you can set CONFIG_SCSI_QLA_FC=y and expect it to work. Select the right
> firmware for your device, of course.
>

CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="ql2100_fw.bin  ql2300_fw.bin  ql2400_fw.bin
ql2200_fw.bin  ql2322_fw.bin  ql2500_fw.bin"
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="firmware"


make[1]: *** No rule to make target
`include/config/builtin/firmware/dir.h', needed by
`firmware/ql2100_fw.bin.gen.S'.  Stop.
make: *** [firmware] Error 2

YH
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