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

Ben Hutchings
2013-01-11T03:48:10Z

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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.
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> From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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> commit 576d28a7c73013717311cfcb514dbcae27c82eeb upstream.
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> 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?

Ben.

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