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From: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:32:31 +0200
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Subject: Re: calling request_firmware() from module init will not work with
 recent/future udev versions
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
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On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>> The logic to tell udev that it runs in the initramfs could easily be
>> implemented by other initramfs tools than dracut, but they usually do
>> not really follow what we do here, so this might for now only work on
>> recent systems using dracut.
>
> Ok, too bad there wasn't a generic way, but at least there's a way
> now :-)

If I understand the code correctly, it should be enough to put a file
/etc/initrd-release in the initramfs for udev to do the right thing.
But please correct me if I'm wrong Kay.

-t