firmware: Make user-mode helper optional
This patch adds a new kconfig, CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER, and
guards the user-helper codes in firmware_class.c with ifdefs.
Yeah, yeah, there are lots of ifdefs in this patch. The further
clean-up with code shuffling follows in the next.
Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig
index c8b4539..07abd9d 100644
--- a/drivers/base/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig
@@ -145,6 +145,17 @@
this option you can point it elsewhere, such as /lib/firmware/ or
some other directory containing the firmware files.
+config FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
+ bool "Fallback user-helper invocation for firmware loading"
+ depends on FW_LOADER
+ default y
+ help
+ This option enables / disables the invocation of user-helper
+ (e.g. udev) for loading firmware files as a fallback after the
+ direct file loading in kernel fails. The user-mode helper is
+ no longer required unless you have a special firmware file that
+ resides in a non-standard path.
+
config DEBUG_DRIVER
bool "Driver Core verbose debug messages"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL