From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755385Ab3AKNh3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jan 2013 08:37:29 -0500 Received: from mail-pa0-f51.google.com ([209.85.220.51]:33221 "EHLO mail-pa0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754874Ab3AKNh1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jan 2013 08:37:27 -0500 Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 05:38:05 -0800 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Ben Hutchings Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Larry Finger , "John W. Linville" Subject: Re: [ 004/123] b43legacy: Fix firmware loading when driver is built into the kernel Message-ID: <20130111133805.GA19224@kroah.com> References: <20130109201458.392601412@linuxfoundation.org> <20130109201458.942583904@linuxfoundation.org> <1357876077.4514.7.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1357876077.4514.7.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > > > > 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