CONFIG_FW_LOADER

Duncan Sands baldrick at free.fr
Sat Feb 12 11:37:08 EST 2005


On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 16:24 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 17:21 +0100, Duncan Sands wrote:
> >Solution 1. Add "select FW_LOADER" to Kconfig, so that we always use
> >the firmware loader.  The downside is that some (embedded?) people may
> >want to do all their firmware loading from userspace, and don't want to
> >pay the price of compiling in the firmware loading stuff.
> 
> Don't use select. You should avoid select for user-invisible options, in
> general. Make CONFIG_USBATM depend on CONFIG_FW_LOADER instead. There's
> no need for embedded people to be doing it in userspace.

Hi David, I don't see what's wrong with using select.  What is a
"user-invisible" option?  Maybe you could explain a bit more...

Thanks,

Duncan.




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