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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 10:08:21 +0100 From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com> Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...not-panic.com>, ming.lei@...onical.com, corbet@....net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, dwmw2@...radead.org, dhowells@...hat.com, seth.forshee@...onical.com, rusty@...tcorp.com.au, mmarek@...e.cz, mjg59@...f.ucam.org, kyle@...nel.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, keyrings@...ux-nfs.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>, Vojtěch Pavlík <vojtech@...e.cz> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] firmware: generalize "firmware" as "system data" helpers Just responding to one thing at the moment: On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 11:22:22PM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > * we should phase out the usermode helper from firmware_class long term You can "phase out", but you can not delete it as it's a user/kernel api that we have to support for forever, sorry. Also, for some devices / use cases, the usermode helper is the solution (think async loading of firmware when the host wants to do it.) 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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