linux-kernel - Re: [ 004/123] b43legacy: Fix firmware loading when driver is built into the kernel

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Date:	Fri, 11 Jan 2013 05:38:05 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Subject: Re: [ 004/123] b43legacy: Fix firmware loading when driver is built
 into the kernel

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 03:47:57AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 12:34 -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 3.7-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
> > 
> > commit 576d28a7c73013717311cfcb514dbcae27c82eeb upstream.
> > 
> > Recent versions of udev cause synchronous firmware loading from the
> > probe routine to fail because the request to user space times out.
> [...]
> 
> This has since been fixed in udev, and the kernel can also load firmware
> directly.  So is this still worth doing?

I think so, as not all systems have, or can, update their version of
udev.

thanks,

greg k-h
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