2014-11-10 12:37 GMT-02:00 Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org>: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org> > wrote: > > On 11/10/2014 8:21 AM, Francisco Ares <fra...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Checking the news (eselect news read), I see that an upgrade to udev-217 > >> might break firmware loading, so the news tagged > >> "2014-11-07-udev-upgrade" says that a kernel >= 3.7 should be > configured to: > >> > >> CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n > >> > >> Is it that simple? Trying a new kernel build using "menuconfig", it > >> says that CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER depends on CONFIG_FW_LOADER, and > >> this one depends on a huge list of other configuration elements. > >> > >> Any thoughts? > > > > Ueah... UGH... thanks Lennart/systemd devs for yet another thing to have > > to worry about... > > > > From the kernel config instructions (something not written by the systemd > devs): > This option enables / disables the invocation of user-helper > (e.g. udev) for loading firmware files as a fallback after the > direct file loading in kernel fails. The user-mode helper is > no longer required unless you have a special firmware file that > resides in a non-standard path. Moreover, the udev support has > been deprecated upstream. > > Announcing a feature as deprecated and later dropping it is hardly > controversial. You chose a distro that gives you a choice of things > like your udev implementation and your kernel implementation (or using > udev at all), and as a result you get to deal with the fact that some > versions of the one have constraints on how you use the other. If you > ran a distro like Ubuntu you wouldn't have to worry about any of this, > as you'd use the udev they gave you and the precompiled kernel they > gave you and the world's greatest desktop environment and you'd be > happy with it. Anybody who has run Gentoo for a long time knows that > from time to time some change comes along and you'll just have to deal > with it - you can't just ignore things like firmware-loading on Gentoo > the way you can with some other distros. > > Of course, nothing prevents anybody from creating a preconfigured > kernel for Gentoo. There is genkernel of course, though I think we > probably could do better. Most seem to be happy just managing their > own kernel configurations, and I think that is why nobody has bothered > to spend much time perfecting a canned kernel. > > Going back to the original question, yes - it is that simple. > Dependencies are just dependencies - you only have to worry about them > when you turn things ON. > > -- > Rich > >
Ok, I will try. So, if I understood something, I will probably have to check this configuration entry every time I build a new kernel from now on, because "menuconfig" will probably set this on because of its dependencies, is this correct? Thanks! Francisco
