Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 04:06:29 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
Cc: v4l-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [2.6 patch] remove DVB_AV7110_FIRMWARE
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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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