On Sun, Dec 04, 2005, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > >On Sun, Dec 04, 2005, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > >>CONFIG_DVB_AV7110_FIRMWARE=y > >>CONFIG_DVB_AV7110_FIRMWARE_FILE=./dvb-ttpci-01.fw > > > >We agreed to drop support for this during the merge of the trees > >(there was some build problem, can't remember what it was, > >but I thought no one uses this anyway so let's drop it). > > Does this mean that it should no longer be possible to compile > the firmware into the driver? Well, there is this tiny GPL issue... Compiling firmware into the kernel is not OK and is *discouraged*. > Well, apparently it _is_ possible, > so please don't drop this - it's the way I want to do this, because > this hotplug stuff may be good for a user system, but on my system > I want to be able to easily switch driver versions by simply > setting a symlink. If you switch drivers by setting a symlink you could also do: $ ln -s /foo/mydriversymlink/dvb-ttpci-01.fw /lib/firmware/dvb-ttpci-01.fw Johannes
