Re: A proposal - binary

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 12:36:00PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

 > > That is good to know.  But there is a kernel option which doesn't make 
 > > much sense in that case:
 > > 
 > > [*] Select only drivers that don't need compile-time external firmware
 > 
 > No, that is very different.  That option is present if you don't want to
 > build some firmware images from the source that is present in the kernel
 > tree, and instead, use the pre-built stuff that is also present in the
 > kernel tree.

You're describing PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD.  The text Zach quoted is from
STANDALONE, which is something else completely.  That allows us to not
build drivers that pull in things from /etc and the like during compile.
(Whoever thought that was a good idea?)

		Dave

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