* Goswin von Brederlow | I think something like "Failure: firmware not loaded" or "Failure: | path/firmware: No such file or directory" counts as a dependency.
Nobody's said that the driver has to load the firmware. The firmware might well be loaded by first booting to some other OS, then into Linux, for instance. -- Tollef Fog Heen ,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `-