Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Wed, 3 Oct 2012 15:58:22 -0700 | Subject | Re: udev breakages - was: Re: Need of an ".async_probe()" type of callback at driver's core - Was: Re: [PATCH] [media] drxk: change it to use request_firmware_nowait() |
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On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net> wrote: > > I don't know if you can remove the /sys/.../firmware ABI altogether, because there is at least one, somewhat popular udev replacement that also uses it: mdev > > http://git.busybox.net/busybox/plain/docs/mdev.txt
Heh. That web doc documents /lib/firmware as being the place to be.
That said, there's clearly enough variation here that I think that for now I won't take the step to disable the udev part. I'll do the patch to support "direct filesystem firmware loading" using the udev default paths, and that hopefully fixes the particular case people see with media modules.
We definitely want to have configurable paths and a way to configure udev entirely off for firmware (together with a lack of paths configuring the direct filesystem loading off - that way people can set things up just the way they like), but since I'm travelling tomorrow and this clearly needs more work, I'll do the first step only for now..
Linus
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