From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757237AbYE3KiW (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2008 06:38:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753119AbYE3KiM (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2008 06:38:12 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:55906 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752882AbYE3KiL (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2008 06:38:11 -0400 Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] RFC: Moving firmware blobs out of the kernel. From: David Woodhouse To: Takashi Iwai Cc: Yinghai Lu , David Miller , matthew@wil.cx, arjan@linux.intel.com, greg@kroah.com, James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com, ksummit-2008-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <483F1232.4010003@linux.intel.com> <20080529204736.GZ22636@parisc-linux.org> <86802c440805291355p5697c775k5f0beb8163688058@mail.gmail.com> <20080529.143157.02330907.davem@davemloft.net> <86802c440805291457r71340133pc413b7f1e78e5df3@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 13:37:58 +0300 Message-Id: <1212143878.29244.6.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.1 (2.22.1-2.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 11:52 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > OTOH, it doesn't give you any error at build time even if you forget > to put a firmware image beforehand. The kernel continues to look for > a non-existing external firmware file. In the old code, this can't > happen. Perhaps we should make depmod also check all MODULE_FIRMWARE() and complain about missing firmware which might be used? We could make it (or something else) check for firmwares required by drivers built in to the kernel, too. -- dwmw2