From: Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@gmail.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Kay Sievers" <kay@vrfy.org>,
"Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek" <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>,
systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
"Linux Wireless List" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org,
"Intel Linux Wireless" <ilw@linux.intel.com>,
"Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER to default n and don't select it
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 10:20:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5200B1BD.7030307@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <325b19bb936d7ebae11edad86aac8f0931e8abd9.1375719828.git.luto@amacapital.net>
Op 05-08-13 18:29, Andy Lutomirski schreef:
> The systemd commit below can delay firmware loading by multiple
> minutes if CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=y. Unfortunately no one
> noticed that the systemd-udev change would break new kernels as well
> as old kernels.
>
> Since the kernel apparently can't count on reasonable userspace
> support, turn this thing off by default.
>
> commit a3bd8447be4ea2ce230eb8ae0e815c04d85fa15a
> Author: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
> Date: Mon Mar 18 15:12:18 2013 +0100
>
> udev: make firmware loading optional and disable by default
>
> Distros that whish to support old kernels should set
> --with-firmware-dirs="/usr/lib/firmware/updates:/usr/lib/firmware"
> to retain the old behaviour.
>
methinks this patch should be reverted then, or a stub should be added to udev to always fail firmware loading so timeouts don't occur.
~Maarten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-06 8:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-02 16:04 Slow firmware timeouts again (Re: [3.11 regression?] iwlwifi firmware takes two minutes to load) Andy Lutomirski
2013-08-02 16:21 ` Johannes Berg
2013-08-02 16:24 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-08-02 16:28 ` Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
2013-08-05 11:18 ` [systemd-devel] " Kay Sievers
2013-08-05 16:09 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-08-05 16:29 ` [PATCH] Change CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER to default n and don't select it Andy Lutomirski
2013-08-06 8:20 ` Maarten Lankhorst [this message]
2013-08-06 9:11 ` [systemd-devel] " Tom Gundersen
2013-08-06 9:17 ` Tom Gundersen
2013-08-06 16:08 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-08-06 16:31 ` Bryan Kadzban
[not found] ` <CAG-2HqU=yyxomNTg9-2+bxMKP=e5_pdVT7bhB_CHhFzB-ac_mQ@mail.gmail.com>
2013-08-07 0:26 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-08-07 7:52 ` [PATCH] udev: fail firmware loading immediately if no search path is defined Maarten Lankhorst
2013-08-07 21:24 ` Andy Lutomirski
[not found] ` <CAG-2HqUT3hbFPSEqYnJvBOgS6p4dKf=nhqZtzqS-on8FFe9ipA@mail.gmail.com>
2013-08-10 21:28 ` Kay Sievers
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