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

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Message-Id: <200806301610.m5UGAlqr025302@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Date:	Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:10:47 -0400
From:	"Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)" <chas@....nrl.navy.mil>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
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()

In message <1214837678.10393.345.camel@...c.infradead.org>,David Woodhouse writ
es:
>> 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.

does it?  i was under the impression that MODULE_FIRMWARE() just
provides a hint that modinfo can read.  request_firmware() still
the requestor for the firmware image.
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