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 03:47:57 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
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 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?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
If you seem to know what you are doing, you'll be given more to do.

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