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From: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 23:18:06 +0200
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Subject: Re: udev breakages - was: Re: Need of an ".async_probe()" type of
 callback at driver's core - Was: Re: [PATCH] [media] drxk: change it to use request_firmware_nowait()
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> As for the firmware path, maybe we should
> change that to be modified by userspace (much like /sbin/hotplug was) in
> a proc file so that distros can override the location if they need to.

If that's needed, a CONFIG_FIRMWARE_PATH= with the array of locations
would probably be sufficient.

Like udev's defaults here:
  http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/configure.ac#n550

Kay
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