Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jan 2013 05:38:05 -0800 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [ 004/123] b43legacy: Fix firmware loading when driver is built into the kernel |
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On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 03:47:57AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 12:34 -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > 3.7-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > ------------------ > > > > From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> > > > > commit 576d28a7c73013717311cfcb514dbcae27c82eeb upstream. > > > > Recent versions of udev cause synchronous firmware loading from the > > probe routine to fail because the request to user space times out. > [...] > > This has since been fixed in udev, and the kernel can also load firmware > directly. So is this still worth doing?
I think so, as not all systems have, or can, update their version of udev.
thanks,
greg k-h
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