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| author | Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> | 2013-01-31 14:13:55 +0400 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2013-02-04 05:57:40 +0400 |
| commit | 7b1269f778782d2f42994a74bf4014d0cbebbf9f (patch) | |
| tree | c6b76a1310fb7c6910a8450c2c6f13f703a2da86 /drivers/base/Kconfig | |
| parent | 4e0c92d015235d1dc65f9668a10cef2cea468ba2 (diff) | |
| download | linux-7b1269f778782d2f42994a74bf4014d0cbebbf9f.tar.xz | |
firmware: Make user-mode helper optional
This patch adds a new kconfig, CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER, and
guards the user-helper codes in firmware_class.c with ifdefs.
Yeah, yeah, there are lots of ifdefs in this patch. The further
clean-up with code shuffling follows in the next.
Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/Kconfig | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig index c8b453939da2..07abd9d76f7f 100644 --- a/drivers/base/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig @@ -145,6 +145,17 @@ config EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR this option you can point it elsewhere, such as /lib/firmware/ or some other directory containing the firmware files. +config FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER + bool "Fallback user-helper invocation for firmware loading" + depends on FW_LOADER + default y + help + This option enables / disables the invocation of user-helper + (e.g. udev) for loading firmware files as a fallback after the + direct file loading in kernel fails. The user-mode helper is + no longer required unless you have a special firmware file that + resides in a non-standard path. + config DEBUG_DRIVER bool "Driver Core verbose debug messages" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL |