[Prism54-devel] Kernel patch & Firmware loading

Marcel Holtmann marcel@holtmann.org
Wed, 04 Feb 2004 00:19:33 +0100


Hi Margit,

> Marcel, It doesn't work :
>    LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
> drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x4ed0e): In function `isl38xx_upload_firmware':
> : undefined reference to `request_firmware'
> drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x4ed94): In function `isl38xx_upload_firmware':
> : undefined reference to `release_firmware'
> drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x4ee40): In function `isl38xx_upload_firmware':
> : undefined reference to `release_firmware'
> make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
> 
> :/home/margit/linux-2.6.1/drivers/net # ls Ma*
> Makefile  Makefile.lib
> :/home/margit/linux-2.6.1/drivers/net # cat Makefile.lib
> obj-$(CONFIG_PRISM54) += firmware_class.o
> 
> CONFIG_PRISM54=y

it looks like you have mixed here something. The Makefile.lib stuff is
for 2.4 only. In 2.6 it is enough to put a "select FW_LOADER" into
Kconfig.

Regards

Marcel