| Subject | Re: [ 004/123] b43legacy: Fix firmware loading when driver is built into the kernel | From | Ben Hutchings <> | Date | Fri, 11 Jan 2013 03:47:57 +0000 |
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On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 12:34 -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > 3.7-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > ------------------ > > From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> > > commit 576d28a7c73013717311cfcb514dbcae27c82eeb upstream. > > Recent versions of udev cause synchronous firmware loading from the > probe routine to fail because the request to user space times out. [...]
This has since been fixed in udev, and the kernel can also load firmware directly. So is this still worth doing?
Ben.
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