linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] firmware: annotate thou shalt not request fw on init or probe

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Message-ID: <CA+5PVA6toGj5iboTgK5Casy9vUAQC8SXYWKEx+ojwC51UEV0HA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 1 Sep 2015 13:28:27 -0400
From:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>
To:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...not-panic.com>
Cc:	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	liam.r.girdwood@...ux.intel.com, yang.jie@...el.com,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	joonas.lahtinen@...ux.intel.com, Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	"Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	yalin.wang2010@...il.com, "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@...6.fr>,
	Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@...g.fr>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	cocci@...teme.lip6.fr, Alessandro Rubini <rubini@...dd.com>,
	Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@...il.com>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] firmware: annotate thou shalt not request fw on init or probe

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
<mcgrof@...not-panic.com> wrote:
> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>
>
> We are phasing out the usermode helper from the kernel,
> systemd already ripped support for this a while ago, the
> only remaining valid user is the Dell rbu driver. The

Actually, I don't think that is accurate any longer.  The Dell rbu
driver certainly requires this, but it seems that the following
drivers select FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK as well:

CONFIG_DRM_STI
CONFIG_LEDS_LP55XX_COMMON

Why they do that, I have no idea.  It's kind of disappointing.

josh
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