Re: udev breakages - was: Re: Need of an ".async_probe()" type of callback at driver's core - Was: Re: [PATCH] [media] drxk: change it to use request_firmware_nowait()

I've heard that the udev userland piping of firmware is done to avoid some licensing issues. But honestly, if you can not store the firmware on the user's disk, no free operating system should support it at all. This piping thing have been feature creep that have metastasized all over the

Re: udev breakages - was: Re: Need of an .async_probe() type of callback at driver's core - Was: Re: [PATCH] [media] drxk: change it to use request_firmware_nowait()

it at all. This piping thing have been feature creep that have metastasized all over the kernel while keeping a lot of obscure modules broken (in hard to find way) and requiring increasingly complicated schemes to workaround its flaws. KiSS. Best Regards Ivan Kalvachev -- To unsubscribe from