On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 09:39:41AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > > That said, there's clearly enough variation here that I think that for > > now I won't take the step to disable the udev part. I'll do the patch > > to support "direct filesystem firmware loading" using the udev default > > paths, and that hopefully fixes the particular case people see with > > media modules. > > As you probably noticed, we had a tester in the RH bug report success > with the commit you included yesterday. > > Do you think this is something worth including in the stable kernels > after it gets some further testing during the merge window? Perhaps > not that specific commit as there seems to be some additional changes > needed for configurable paths, etc, but a backport of the fleshed out > changeset might be wanted. > > We have a new enough udev in Fedora 17 to hit this issue with 3.5 and > 3.6 when we rebase. I'm sure other distributions will be in similar > circumstances soon if they aren't already. Udev isn't going to be > fixed, so having something working in these cases would be great.
Yes, I don't have a problem taking this into the stable kernel releases once it gets some testing and fleshed out. I'll be watching it to see how it goes. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
