Control: tag -1 moreinfo 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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