On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 21:34:08 +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:17:00AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > Luis, did you tell me the other day that you made the kernel get firmware > > directly from the file system? This regression would be yours then? > > I didn't implement that, Linus did in 2012 (see commit abb139e75c2c titled > "firmware: teach the kernel to load firmware files directly from the > filesystem"). But we used to fallback to a userspace helper when the fw was > not present and then Takashi made this optional via commit 7b1269f778782d > titled "firmware: Make user-mode helper optional". Takashi noted in the > Kconfig "The user-mode helper is no longer required unless you have a > special firmware file that resides in a non-standard path". It was not > clarified why that's true though, or what you'd need to do to ensure > that the fw would be available. It would be good for us to elaborate > on that.
The recent udev already dropped the firmware loading feature. Takashi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/