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
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