diff -urN linux-2.4.22-pre10-ac1/lib/firmware_class.c linux-2.4.22-pre10-ac1-reqfrm-hotplug/lib/firmware_class.c
--- linux-2.4.22-pre10-ac1/lib/firmware_class.c	Sat Aug  2 10:50:04 2003
+++ linux-2.4.22-pre10-ac1-reqfrm-hotplug/lib/firmware_class.c	Sat Aug  2 11:21:02 2003
@@ -67,6 +67,8 @@
 static struct proc_dir_entry *proc_dir_timeout;
 static struct proc_dir_entry *proc_dir;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG
+
 static int
 call_helper(char *verb, const char *name, const char *device)
 {
@@ -126,7 +128,9 @@
 
 	envp[i++] = 0;
 
+#ifdef  DEBUG
 	dbg("firmware: %s %s %s", argv[0], argv[1], verb);
+#endif
 
 	retval = call_usermodehelper(argv[0], argv, envp);
 	if (retval) {
@@ -137,6 +141,15 @@
 	kfree(envp);
 	return retval;
 }
+#else
+
+static inline int
+call_helper(char *verb, const char *name, const char *device)
+{
+	return -ENOENT;
+}
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_HOTPLUG */
 
 struct firmware_priv {
 	struct completion completion;