From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Subject: Re: [RFC] firmware: annotate thou shalt not request fw on init or probe Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 03:37:25 +0200 Message-ID: <20150903013725.GP8051@wotan.suse.de> References: <1440811107-861-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Josh Boyer Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Ming Lei , Julia Lawall , Linus Torvalds , liam.r.girdwood@linux.intel.com, yang.jie@intel.com, Takashi Iwai , Dmitry Torokhov , joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com, Tom Gundersen , Alexander Viro , Greg KH , Kay Sievers , David Woodhouse , "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" , yalin.wang2010@gmail.com, Jonathan Corbet , Gilles Muller , Nicolas Palix , Michal Marek , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, cocci@systeme.lip6.fr, Alessandro Rubini , Kevin Cernekee Jiri Slaby List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 01:28:27PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez > wrote: > > From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" > > > > We are phasing out the usermode helper from the kernel, > > systemd already ripped support for this a while ago, the > > only remaining valid user is the Dell rbu driver. The > > Actually, I don't think that is accurate any longer. The Dell rbu > driver certainly requires this, but it seems that the following > drivers select FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK as well: > > CONFIG_DRM_STI > CONFIG_LEDS_LP55XX_COMMON > > Why they do that, I have no idea. It's kind of disappointing. What The Flying-hipster-typewriters! Indeed. With more reason to put the user mode helper to sleep sooner rather than later. Luis