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authorAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>2008-06-10 19:04:08 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-07-21 21:54:58 -0700
commitd9b19199e4894089456aaad295023263b5225c1a (patch)
tree97408cdde56ac71d05d3d0429617a1a2d3ba25da /drivers/base/Kconfig
parent4f7e53096c93f0bdf2205134dfc541d0c3cc6e41 (diff)
downloadlinux-d9b19199e4894089456aaad295023263b5225c1a.tar.gz
always enable FW_LOADER unless EMBEDDED=y
James Bottomley recently discovered that we have
{request,release}_firmware() dummies for the case of the actual
functions not being available and has a fix for the bug that was
actually causing build errors for built-in users with
CONFIG_FW_LOADER=m.

But now missing selects on FW_LOADER are no longer visible at
compile-time at all and can become runtime problems.

FW_LOADER is infrastructure with relatively small codesize we can safely
enable for everyone, and only for people who really need small kernels
(and can be expected to know what they are doing) it matters being able
to disable it.

This patch therefore always sets FW_LOADER=y and allows users only to
disable it with EMBEDDED=y.

As a bonus, we can then get rid of all "select FW_LOADER" plus the due
to it required "depends on HOTPLUG" which removes some complexity from
our Kconfig files.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/Kconfig3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig
index d47482fa1d21..6318f6b57360 100644
--- a/drivers/base/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig
@@ -27,8 +27,9 @@ config PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD
 	  If unsure say Y here.
 
 config FW_LOADER
-	tristate "Userspace firmware loading support"
+	tristate "Userspace firmware loading support" if EMBEDDED
 	depends on HOTPLUG
+	default y
 	---help---
 	  This option is provided for the case where no in-kernel-tree modules
 	  require userspace firmware loading support, but a module built outside