On Fri, 2013-12-13 at 00:28 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: [...] > >> Such an explicit message would probably use printk_emit() and pass > >> structured data with the filename and the ides from the kernel to > >> userspace, and on systemd systems the journal would pick up the > >> MESSAGE_ID and do something with it, or provide the data to other > >> consumers. > > > The better approach would have been to write a replacement *before* dropping > > the udev missing-firmware handling. > > There have been many technical reasons to let the kernel do the job, > and that is how it works today, and it works well and reliably. [...]
For the record, 3.12 still has:
config FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
bool "Fallback user-helper invocation for firmware loading"
depends on FW_LOADER
default y
But at this point I suppose there is no point leaving it enabled.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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