Re: tristate and bool not enogh for Kconfig anymore

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 02:42:38PM +0200, Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
> > I think there is a need for Kconfig to specify that a functionality could
> > be built as a module or not built at all.
> >
> > Some drivers require that firmware is loaded when the driver is
> > initialized. The kernel has functionalities for this by using a userspace
> > program. However, this userspace program is only usable from modules and
> > not during boot while any initrd or any other file system has not yet been
> > mounted and yet less any processes started.
>
> That's wrong.   You can load firmware from the initramfs even if the
> driver is built in.  There is no valid reason why a driver shouldn't
> be allowed to be built in.

Could you please explain how this is supposed to work?

As far as I understand, the kernel initializes all built-in drivers, and 
only then starts /init in initramfs (which is then supposed to start 
udevd and load firmware) - but that's too late.

--
Alexander E. Patrakov
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