Re: [ 004/123] b43legacy: Fix firmware loading when driver is built into the kernel

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-11T13:37:29Z

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 03:47:57AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 12:34 -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 3.7-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
> >
> > commit 576d28a7c73013717311cfcb514dbcae27c82eeb upstream.
> >
> > Recent versions of udev cause synchronous firmware loading from the
> > probe routine to fail because the request to user space times out.
> [...]
>
> This has since been fixed in udev, and the kernel can also load firmware
> directly. So is this still worth doing?

I think so, as not all systems have, or can, update their version of
udev.

thanks,

greg k-h