Re: build issue #503 for v2.6.26-rc2-433-gf26a398 : undefinedreference to `request_firmware'

[Adrian Bunk]

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 05:52:44PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 15:39 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 May 2008 17:00:30 -0500 James Bottomley wrote:
> > >      1. No stubs and simply select FW_LOADER for everything
> > >      2. Stubs that actually work in all situations.
> > > 
> > > My patch does 2.  I can see an argument for 1. but since we have the
> > > stubs, making them work in all cases seems like the smaller change to
> > > functionality.
> > 
> > Oh, I'm for the stubs approach.
> > 
> > So with SCSI_SAS_LIBSAS=y and FW_LOADER=m, you would want/expect
> > request_firmware() to return -EINVAL all of the time?
> 
> If you want stubs, yes
>...

I think I was the only one who had doubts about this patch.

And I've turned into a fan of your patch (plus my
"always enable FW_LOADER unless EMBEDDED=y" patch).

Can you (re)submit your patch so that it gets into 2.6.26?

> James

Thanks
Adrian

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