Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:18:00 +0600 | From | "Alexander E. Patrakov" <> | Subject | Re: tristate and bool not enogh for Kconfig anymore |
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Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 05:27:51PM +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > >> Yes, there is a call to usermodehelper_init() before the initcalls in >> do_basic_setup(), this does mean that firmware can be loaded by means of >> the old and obsolete /sbin/hotplug mechanism, but who has /sbin/hotplug now? >> > > I do. We're not going to cripple the kernel just because you use <censored> userspace. > > AFAIK, there were good reasons (effect similar to fork bomb on a system with large number of, e.g., SCSI disks - Greg KH obviously knows more details) to drop /sbin/hotplug from all distributions in favour of udev. Anyway, the "hotplug" package is no longer supported by its author. So there is no option to use a non-<censored> from your viewpoint but still supported-upstream userspace.
As already mentioned in a different subthread, the solution is to wait for the firmware in the background, so that the built-in case also starts working. Drivers that don't do this (e.g. qla2xxx) must be fixed, but for now, IMHO, it does make sense to mark them as non-working in the non-modular case.
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