Re: [GIT PATCH] SCSI updates for 2.6.25

[Ingo Molnar]

* James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >  drivers/built-in.o: In function `sas_request_addr':
> >  : undefined reference to `release_firmware'
> > 
> > config can be found at:
> > 
> >    http://redhat.com/~mingo/misc/config-Sat_Apr_19_16_58_35_CEST_2008.bad
> > 
> > ... brought to you by x86.git's randconfig build and boot service ;-)
> 
> This one's fun.  The root cause is 
> 
> CONFIG_SCSI_SAS_LIBSAS=y
> CONFIG_FW_LOADER=m
> 
> The problem is that libsas doesn't depend on the FW loader and doesn't 
> want to.  It just wants to use it if it's available.  The definitions 
> in include/linux/firmware.h have stubs to facilitate this.
> 
> However, CONFIG_FW_LOADER=m defeats the stubs.
> 
> This is a bit nasty to fix; however, I think this patch does.  I've 
> also put a large comment in to explain what's going on.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

thanks James - your fix works fine here.

Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

	Ingo
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