Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Wed, 3 Oct 2012 15:17:15 -0700 | 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, Oct 3, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> 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
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