Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] RFC: Moving firmware blobs out of thekernel.

[David Woodhouse]

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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