From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>,
ming.lei@canonical.com, corbet@lwn.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
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seth.forshee@canonical.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
mmarek@suse.cz, mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, kyle@kernel.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, keyrings@linux-nfs.org,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Kees Cook" <keescook@chromium.org>,
"Casey Schaufler" <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
"Takashi Iwai" <tiwai@suse.de>,
"Vojtěch Pavlík" <vojtech@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] firmware: generalize "firmware" as "system data" helpers
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 10:08:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151006090821.GB9030@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151005212222.GO14464@wotan.suse.de>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-06 9:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-04 22:00 [PATCH 0/4] firmware_class: few small code shifts Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-08-04 22:00 ` [PATCH 1/4] firmware: generalize "firmware" as "system data" helpers Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-10-04 19:16 ` Greg KH
2015-10-05 21:22 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-10-06 9:08 ` Greg KH [this message]
2015-10-06 17:28 ` [PATCH 1/4] firmware: generalize "firmware" as "system data" helpers] Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-10-08 20:16 ` [PATCH 1/4] firmware: generalize "firmware" as "system data" helpers Josh Boyer
2015-12-17 19:16 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-08-04 22:00 ` [PATCH 2/4] firmware: move completing fw into a helper Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-08-04 22:00 ` [PATCH 3/4] firmware: fold successful fw read early Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-08-09 13:29 ` Ming Lei
2015-08-10 16:43 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-08-04 22:00 ` [PATCH 4/4] firmware: generalize reading file contents as a helper Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-08-21 21:23 ` [PATCH 0/4] firmware_class: few small code shifts Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-08-22 5:38 ` Greg KH
2015-08-22 21:18 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
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