On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 08:14:16PM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > > Are you sure? I think this should stay as "Userspace..." as that is > what it does, right? > > Turning it off should only drop the userspace callouts, it shouldn't > stop the kernel from loading firmware from the filesystem all on its own > with no help.
As far as I can tell that's not true. With FW_LOADER=n, firmware_class.c is compiled out and request_firmware() always returns -EINVAL. My patch tries to make it more clear that FW_LOADER is the "top-level" option which covers all three firmware loading mechanisms: built-in, directly from the filesystem, and the user-mode helper. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
