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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 03:37:25 +0200 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com> To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org> Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...not-panic.com>, 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, 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 Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 01:28:27PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > 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. What The Flying-hipster-typewriters! Indeed. With more reason to put the user mode helper to sleep sooner rather than later. Luis -- 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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