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Re: [PATCH] brcmsmac: document firmware dependencies

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On 08/06/2012 09:17 PM, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
> The brcmsmac driver requests firmware but doesn't document the
> dependency. This means that software that analyzes the modules to
> determine if firmware is needed won't detect it.
> 
> Specifically, (at least) openSUSE won't install the kernel-firmware
> package if no hardware requires it.
> 
> This patch adds the MODULE_FIRMWARE directives.
>

Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>

Gr. AvS

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