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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/Kconfig | 25 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/isa.c | 10 |
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig index 2f6614c9a229..bdc87907d6a1 100644 --- a/drivers/base/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig @@ -91,22 +91,23 @@ config FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL depends on FW_LOADER default y help - The kernel source tree includes a number of firmware 'blobs' - that are used by various drivers. The recommended way to - use these is to run "make firmware_install", which, after - converting ihex files to binary, copies all of the needed - binary files in firmware/ to /lib/firmware/ on your system so - that they can be loaded by userspace helpers on request. + Various drivers in the kernel source tree may require firmware, + which is generally available in your distribution's linux-firmware + package. + + The linux-firmware package should install firmware into + /lib/firmware/ on your system, so they can be loaded by userspace + helpers on request. Enabling this option will build each required firmware blob - into the kernel directly, where request_firmware() will find - them without having to call out to userspace. This may be - useful if your root file system requires a device that uses - such firmware and do not wish to use an initrd. + specified by EXTRA_FIRMWARE into the kernel directly, where + request_firmware() will find them without having to call out to + userspace. This may be useful if your root file system requires a + device that uses such firmware and you do not wish to use an + initrd. This single option controls the inclusion of firmware for - every driver that uses request_firmware() and ships its - firmware in the kernel source tree, which avoids a + every driver that uses request_firmware(), which avoids a proliferation of 'Include firmware for xxx device' options. Say 'N' and let firmware be loaded from userspace. diff --git a/drivers/base/isa.c b/drivers/base/isa.c index cd6ccdcf9df0..372d10af2600 100644 --- a/drivers/base/isa.c +++ b/drivers/base/isa.c @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ static int isa_bus_probe(struct device *dev) { struct isa_driver *isa_driver = dev->platform_data; - if (isa_driver->probe) + if (isa_driver && isa_driver->probe) return isa_driver->probe(dev, to_isa_dev(dev)->id); return 0; @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ static int isa_bus_remove(struct device *dev) { struct isa_driver *isa_driver = dev->platform_data; - if (isa_driver->remove) + if (isa_driver && isa_driver->remove) return isa_driver->remove(dev, to_isa_dev(dev)->id); return 0; @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ static void isa_bus_shutdown(struct device *dev) { struct isa_driver *isa_driver = dev->platform_data; - if (isa_driver->shutdown) + if (isa_driver && isa_driver->shutdown) isa_driver->shutdown(dev, to_isa_dev(dev)->id); } @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ static int isa_bus_suspend(struct device *dev, pm_message_t state) { struct isa_driver *isa_driver = dev->platform_data; - if (isa_driver->suspend) + if (isa_driver && isa_driver->suspend) return isa_driver->suspend(dev, to_isa_dev(dev)->id, state); return 0; @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ static int isa_bus_resume(struct device *dev) { struct isa_driver *isa_driver = dev->platform_data; - if (isa_driver->resume) + if (isa_driver && isa_driver->resume) return isa_driver->resume(dev, to_isa_dev(dev)->id); return 0; |