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From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	liam.r.girdwood@linux.intel.com, yang.jie@intel.com,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
	joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com, Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
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	yalin.wang2010@gmail.com, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@lip6.fr>,
	Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@imag.fr>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, cocci@systeme.lip6.fr,
	Alessandro Rubini <rubini@gnudd.com>,
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	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] firmware: annotate thou shalt not request fw on init or probe
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 03:37:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150903013725.GP8051@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+5PVA6toGj5iboTgK5Casy9vUAQC8SXYWKEx+ojwC51UEV0HA@mail.gmail.com>

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
> <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> wrote:
> > From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>
> >
> > 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

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-03  1:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-29  1:18 [RFC] firmware: annotate thou shalt not request fw on init or probe Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-08-29 16:18 ` Julia Lawall
2015-09-03  1:35   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-09-03  5:56     ` Julia Lawall
2016-06-16 20:56       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-09-01 17:28 ` Josh Boyer
2015-09-03  1:37   ` Luis R. Rodriguez [this message]
2015-09-03 11:45 ` [Cocci] " SF Markus Elfring

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