Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756167AbbEVIoS (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 May 2015 04:44:18 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:48374 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754712AbbEVIoO (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 May 2015 04:44:14 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 10:44:06 +0200 Message-ID: From: Takashi Iwai To: Paul Bolle Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Borislav Petkov , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Greg KH , "David S. Miller" , clemens@ladisch.de, Dmitry Torokhov , JBottomley@odin.com, David Airlie , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Herbert Xu , Marcel Holtmann , "Gustavo F. Padovan" , Johan Hedberg , Mikael Starvik , Jesper Nilsson , Imre Kaloz , khalasa@piap.pl, ohad@wizery.com, Arnd Bergmann , 3chas3@gmail.com, Jiri Slaby , Bryan Wu , Richard Purdie , Jacek Anaszewski , Takashi Iwai , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [RFC v1] tree-wide: remove "select FW_LOADER" uses In-Reply-To: <1432282668.27695.24.camel@x220> References: <1432241149-8762-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> <20150521222129.GI3689@pd.tnic> <20150522065346.GA23022@pd.tnic> <1432282668.27695.24.camel@x220> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.9 (=?UTF-8?B?R29qxY0=?=) APEL/10.8 Emacs/24.5 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1264 Lines: 27 At Fri, 22 May 2015 10:17:48 +0200, Paul Bolle wrote: > > On Fri, 2015-05-22 at 09:11 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 8:53 AM, 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... > > Luis also tried to explain to me that disabling FW_LOADER shouldn't make > the build fail. (And, of course, we could decide to not care about > randconfig builds that have EXPERT set. Maybe we could even special case > EXPERT in randconfig. But that would make randconfig builds less useful. > That's a separate issue, anyhow.) But FW_LOADER is a tristate, so it might be inconsistent if selected randomly? Luis' patch doesn't add depends but just removes select. Takashi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/