linux-kernel - Re: [PULL] Miscellaneous trivialities

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Message-ID: <44b5fd3b87ba4565a78f1da4fa7d2e7d-mfwitten@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 16 Aug 2013 20:02:23 -0000
From:	Michael Witten <mfwitten@...il.com>
To:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
Cc:	Jiri Kosina <trivial@...nel.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PULL] Miscellaneous trivialities

On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 10:48:16 -0500, Rob Landley wrote:

> On 08/15/2013 04:44:01 AM, Michael Witten wrote:
>
>> I've been sitting on some trivial patches for a while, and I'd just
>> like to get them out of the way.
>>
>> Here is the series:
>>
>> ...
>>
>>   [5] Docs: Replace `hotplug' with `udev'
>>
>> ...
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 b/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200
>> index b7658be..aeb6494 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200
>> +++ b/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200
>> @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ You can set the debug level via:
>> 
>>  Where $VALUE would be a number in the case of this sysfs entry.  The
>>  input to sysfs files does not have to be a number.  For example, the
>> -firmware loader used by hotplug utilizes sysfs entries for transferring
>> +firmware loader used by udev utilizes sysfs entries for transferring
>>  the firmware image from user space into the driver.
>
> Hotplug is the name of the kernel subsystem, udev was one implementation
> of a userspace agent for it. A different implementation would be mdev
> (in busybox), some linux from scratch types are still using variants of
> diethotplug, there's a fork of udev called eudev that avoids systemd...
>
> And these days, firmware loading is mostly done directly by the kernel.
>
>>  The Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Driver for Linux exposes sysfs entries
>> @@ -425,8 +425,7 @@ are made to the driver.  Currently, there are no major changes planned.
>>  ----------------------------------------------
>>
>>  The driver requires a firmware image, download it and extract the
>> -files under /lib/firmware (or wherever your hotplug's firmware.agent
>> -will look for firmware files)
>> +files under /lib/firmware (or wherever udev will look for firmware files)
>
> Again, hotplug is correct.

Thanks for catching my error. I removed that patch from the series; the
remaining commits can be pulled from here:

  https://github.com/mfwitten/linux.git trivial/misc/1
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