Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 22:45:54 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>,
        Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>,
        Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Kay Sievers <kay@redhat.com>,
        Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>,
        Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>,
        Ivan Kalvachev <ikalvachev@gmail.com>
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()
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On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 23:18:06 +0200
Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> wrote:

> 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.

The current system permits firmware to be served by a daemon, or even
assembled on the fly from parts. You break that for one.

Just fix udev, and if you can't fix it someone please just fork the last
working one.

Alan
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