Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] RFC: Moving firmware blobs out of the kernel. | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Fri, 30 May 2008 13:37:58 +0300 |
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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
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