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Message-ID: <1432283559.27695.31.camel@x220>
Date:	Fri, 22 May 2015 10:32:39 +0200
From:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...not-panic.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC v1] tree-wide: remove "select FW_LOADER" uses

On Fri, 2015-05-22 at 08:53 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> One thing I forgot last night: what about randconfigs? All that
> functionality which selects FW_LOADER, won't boot anymore, right? I
> mean, there are provisions to build fine even with FW_LOADER unset but
> if you want to boot-test those kernels, you will artificially fail due
> to missing request_firmware* things...
> 
> Yap, just triggered one:
> 
> $ make randconfig; grep -E "(MICROCODE|FW_LOADER)" .config
> scripts/kconfig/conf  --randconfig Kconfig
> KCONFIG_SEED=0xE14FBE97
> warning: (USB_OTG_FSM && FSL_USB2_OTG && USB_MV_OTG) selects USB_OTG which has unmet direct dependencies (USB_SUPPORT && USB && PM)
> warning: (USB_OTG_FSM && FSL_USB2_OTG && USB_MV_OTG) selects USB_OTG which has unmet direct dependencies (USB_SUPPORT && USB && PM)
> warning: (SND_SOC_INTEL_BYTCR_RT5640_MACH && SND_SOC_INTEL_CHT_BSW_RT5672_MACH && SND_SOC_INTEL_CHT_BSW_RT5645_MACH) selects SND_SST_IPC_ACPI which has unmet direct dependencies (SOUND && !M68K && !UML && SND && SND_SOC && ACPI)

Those missing dependencies look unrelated to not having FW_LOADER set.
Did I miss something here?

Thanks,


Paul Bolle

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