linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v1] tree-wide: remove "select FW

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Date:	Fri, 22 May 2015 10:26:51 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...not-panic.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, clemens@...isch.de,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	JBottomley@...n.com, David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@....samsung.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	"Gustavo F. Padovan" <gustavo@...ovan.org>,
	Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@...il.com>,
	Mikael Starvik <starvik@...s.com>,
	Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@...s.com>,
	Imre Kaloz <kaloz@...nwrt.org>, khalasa@...p.pl,
	ohad@...ery.com, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, 3chas3@...il.com,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, Bryan Wu <cooloney@...il.com>,
	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>,
	Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@...sung.com>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC v1] tree-wide: remove "select FW_LOADER" uses

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 10:17:48AM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> Luis also tried to explain to me that disabling FW_LOADER shouldn't
> make the build fail.

It doesn't. There are #else provisions in the header which define empty
functions returning -EINVAL and so on.

> Booting (truly) randconfig builds is like booting allyesconfig or
> allnoconfig builds: no one sane should do that, right?

Why not? It doesn't hurt to try to boot them in a guest. It sometimes
triggers valid issues.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
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