Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756678Ab2JCWRk (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2012 18:17:40 -0400 Received: from mail-we0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:40572 "EHLO mail-we0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753488Ab2JCWRi (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2012 18:17:38 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4FE9169D.5020300@redhat.com> <20121002100319.59146693@redhat.com> <20121002221239.GA30990@kroah.com> <20121002222333.GA32207@kroah.com> <506C562E.5090909@redhat.com> <20121003170907.GA23473@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20121003195059.GA13541@kroah.com> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 15:17:15 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: pucAwwX3NjJq2p_tdFdVtMwLvR8 Message-ID: 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: Lucas De Marchi Cc: Greg KH , Al Viro , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Ming Lei , Kay Sievers , Lennart Poettering , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kay Sievers , Linux Media Mailing List , Michael Krufky , Ivan Kalvachev Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 715 Lines: 19 On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Lucas De Marchi wrote: > > So maintaining the fallback or adding a configurable entry to set the > firmware paths might be good. Yeah, I do think we need to make it configurable. Probably both at kernel compile time and dynamically. The aim of having a user-mode daemon do this was that it would be easy to configure. Sadly, if we can't trust the daemon, that is all totally worthless. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/