On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 4:29 AM, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > 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.
Yeah, not sure, if it could be removed. Fedora has that option disabled since a while. Kay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
