On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 01:06:02PM -0800, Trent Piepho wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > DVB_AV7110_FIRMWARE was (except for some OSS drivers) the only option
> > that was still compiling a binary-only user-supplied firmware file at
> > build-time into the kernel.
> >
> > This patch changes the driver to always use the standard
> > request_firmware() way for firmware by removing DVB_AV7110_FIRMWARE.
>
> Doesn't this also prevent the AV7110 module from getting compiled
> into the kernel? Shouldn't the Kconfig file be adjusted so
> that 'y' can't be selected anymore and it depends on MODULES?
No.
No.
request_firmware() works fine for built-in drivers.
cu
Adrian
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