linux-kernel - Re: udev breakages - was: Re: Need of an ".async_probe()" type of callback at driver's core - Was: Re: [PATCH] [media] drxk: change it to use request_firmware

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFw9-8cfcGrnLhjDn_zoq44TbSByPkqxkPquUsk=x+Ez9g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 3 Oct 2012 15:17:15 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@...il.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>, Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>,
	Lennart Poettering <lennart@...ttering.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kay Sievers <kay@...hat.com>,
	Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michael Krufky <mkrufky@...uxtv.org>,
	Ivan Kalvachev <ikalvachev@...il.com>
Subject: Re: udev breakages - was: Re: Need of an ".async_probe()" type of
 callback at driver's core - Was: Re: [PATCH] [media] drxk: change it to use request_firmware_nowait()

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Lucas De Marchi
<lucas.de.marchi@...il.com> wrote:
>
> So maintaining the fallback or adding a configurable entry to set the
> firmware paths might be good.

Yeah, I do think we need to make it configurable. Probably both at
kernel compile time and dynamically.

The aim of having a user-mode daemon do this was that it would be easy
to configure. Sadly, if we can't trust the daemon, that is all totally
worthless.

               Linus
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