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Message-ID: <20130111133805.GA19224@kroah.com> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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