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Re: Bug#725714: reassign to linux



On Sat, 2013-12-21 at 18:50 +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 src:linux
> 
> Hi,
> 
> as nobody objected to my proposal, I'm reassigning this bug back to linux.
> In my opinion FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER should default to no, since the 
> functionality is not in udev anymore.

I made this change in 3.12.6-1 which was just uploaded.

> Furthermore it seems, that when this functionality was moved to the 
> kernel, it was not implemented, that the missing firmware files are 
> written somewhere, which is needed by the Debian installer.
> I think this can best be added in firmware_class.c [1], in the places, 
> where fw_load_from_user_helper is called.

Right, I plan to implement structured logging as suggested by Kay.

Ben.


> Best regards,
> Andreas
> 
> 1: 
> http://sources.debian.net/src/linux/3.12.3-1~exp1/drivers/base/firmware_class.c

-- 
Ben Hutchings
If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average.

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