15 Jan
2009
15 Jan
'09
12:06 a.m.
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:49:57 -0500, Dave Jones davej@redhat.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:17:38PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
It doesn't really gain anything from being static, aside from requiring odd udev rules and/or init scripts to load it.
The driver will do a request_firmware, but if we build the driver in, we'll be in the initrd, where that file won't exist. To make it work, we'll either have to..
A trick exists to go around it: http://people.redhat.com/zaitcev/linux/linux-2.6.27-204396-5.diff
If you recall, libusual has the same problem if it's built in.
-- Pete