On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 09:35:28AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:

Solomon, I can't duplicate the build failure with your .config on 3.7-rc5-next.

Okay, so it's since been fixed.  

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 * The #ifdef wraps code that pertains solely to built-in firmware, (ie 
   CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL) and has an #else path for when it's disabled.
 * There is no point in a CONFIG_FW_LOADER test inside firmware_class.c 
   when the file isn't even compiled unless CONFIG_FW_LOADER is defined.

Enabling CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE still can make one firmware built in kernel
even though CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL isn't defined, so your patch will break
this case.

So... isn't the logical solution here to make CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMARE 
depend on (or enable) CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL?  After all, the two are 
apparently related.

I can update my patch to include this, and rewrite the commit message so 
it's relevant to modern kernels, or I can just drop this and forget the 
whole affair.

 - Solomon
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