Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Wed, 5 Sep 2012 19:47:03 -0700 | Subject | Re: A workaround for request_firmware() stuck in module_init |
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On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > > It's not about a workaround but about doing it properly for the long term > and doing it in one place. It's also not a "great change", its a small > change.
udev needs to get fixed regardless.
Stop this "we can break stuff" crap. Who maintains udev? Regressions are not acceptable. I'm not going to change the kernel because udev broke, f*ck it.
Seriously. More projects need to realize that regressions are totally and utterly unacceptable.
The "long term cleaner issues" can be handled separately, but are *not* an excuse to work around clear regressions in core packages. That just encourages those package maintainers to be shit maintainers.
Just fix udev, which had a regression. And stop blaming the kernel for user space breakage! Tying these kinds of things together ("udev broke, so now we need to change the kernel") is *wrong*. It's totally unacceptable to tie the two together that way.
Linus
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