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Re: Bug#725714: udev firmware loading does not work in the Debian installer



On Fri, 2013-12-13 at 00:28 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
[...]
> >> Such an explicit message would probably use printk_emit() and pass
> >> structured data with the filename and the ides from the kernel to
> >> userspace, and on systemd systems the journal would pick up the
> >> MESSAGE_ID and do something with it, or provide the data to other
> >> consumers.
> 
> > The better approach would have been to write a replacement *before* dropping
> > the udev missing-firmware handling.
> 
> There have been many technical reasons to let the kernel do the job,
> and that is how it works today, and it works well and reliably.
[...]

For the record, 3.12 still has:

config FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
	bool "Fallback user-helper invocation for firmware loading"
	depends on FW_LOADER
	default y

But at this point I suppose there is no point leaving it enabled.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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