Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PULL] Miscellaneous trivialities | Date | Fri, 16 Aug 2013 20:02:23 -0000 | From | Michael Witten <> |
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On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 10:48:16 -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> On 08/15/2013 04:44:01 AM, Michael Witten wrote: > >> I've been sitting on some trivial patches for a while, and I'd just >> like to get them out of the way. >> >> Here is the series: >> >> ... >> >> [5] Docs: Replace `hotplug' with `udev' >> >> ... >> >> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 b/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 >> index b7658be..aeb6494 100644 >> --- a/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 >> +++ b/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 >> @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ You can set the debug level via: >> >> Where $VALUE would be a number in the case of this sysfs entry. The >> input to sysfs files does not have to be a number. For example, the >> -firmware loader used by hotplug utilizes sysfs entries for transferring >> +firmware loader used by udev utilizes sysfs entries for transferring >> the firmware image from user space into the driver. > > Hotplug is the name of the kernel subsystem, udev was one implementation > of a userspace agent for it. A different implementation would be mdev > (in busybox), some linux from scratch types are still using variants of > diethotplug, there's a fork of udev called eudev that avoids systemd... > > And these days, firmware loading is mostly done directly by the kernel. > >> The Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Driver for Linux exposes sysfs entries >> @@ -425,8 +425,7 @@ are made to the driver. Currently, there are no major changes planned. >> ---------------------------------------------- >> >> The driver requires a firmware image, download it and extract the >> -files under /lib/firmware (or wherever your hotplug's firmware.agent >> -will look for firmware files) >> +files under /lib/firmware (or wherever udev will look for firmware files) > > Again, hotplug is correct.
Thanks for catching my error. I removed that patch from the series; the remaining commits can be pulled from here:
https://github.com/mfwitten/linux.git trivial/misc/1
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