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Bug#774657: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64: firmware user helper floods log on missing firmware



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On Mon, 2015-01-05 at 20:41 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
[...]
> > I know that the firmware user helper is deprecated so its not worth
> > paying too much attention to it. But currently it renders a fresh Jessie
> > install quickly unusable when the firmware packages are not installed.
> > Kernel linux-image-3.18.0-trunk-amd64 from experimental works correctly 
> > because it has the renamed CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK disabled.
> 
> That was supposed to be disabled in 3.12.6-1.  However, we enable
> CONFIG_DELL_RBU which selects it.  I think what I'll do is to disable
> that.

Maybe I shouldn't do that, as the firmware agent was renabled in udev
(#717635) so that driver is probably still working now.

So I will reiterate my question:

[...]
> Why does the upstream change not do that?  I don't want to apply a fix
> that isn't upstream.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

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