Re: Bug#725714: udev firmware loading does not work in the Debian installer
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 4:29 AM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> 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.
Yeah, not sure, if it could be removed.
Fedora has that option disabled since a while.
Kay
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