From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756866Ab3HQAMg (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Aug 2013 20:12:36 -0400 Received: from mail-la0-f49.google.com ([209.85.215.49]:47660 "EHLO mail-la0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756617Ab3HQAMe (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Aug 2013 20:12:34 -0400 Subject: Re: [PULL] Miscellaneous trivialities Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 20:02:23 -0000 From: Michael Witten To: Rob Landley Cc: Jiri Kosina , Randy Dunlap , David Airlie , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <44b5fd3b87ba4565a78f1da4fa7d2e7d-mfwitten@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1376668096.2737.43@driftwood> References: <1376668096.2737.43@driftwood> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 10:48:16 -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > On 08/15/2013 04:44:01 AM, Michael Witten wrote: > >> I've been sitting on some trivial patches for a while, and I'd just >> like to get them out of the way. >> >> Here is the series: >> >> ... >> >> [5] Docs: Replace `hotplug' with `udev' >> >> ... >> >> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 b/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 >> index b7658be..aeb6494 100644 >> --- a/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 >> +++ b/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 >> @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ You can set the debug level via: >> >> Where $VALUE would be a number in the case of this sysfs entry. The >> input to sysfs files does not have to be a number. For example, the >> -firmware loader used by hotplug utilizes sysfs entries for transferring >> +firmware loader used by udev utilizes sysfs entries for transferring >> the firmware image from user space into the driver. > > Hotplug is the name of the kernel subsystem, udev was one implementation > of a userspace agent for it. A different implementation would be mdev > (in busybox), some linux from scratch types are still using variants of > diethotplug, there's a fork of udev called eudev that avoids systemd... > > And these days, firmware loading is mostly done directly by the kernel. > >> The Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Driver for Linux exposes sysfs entries >> @@ -425,8 +425,7 @@ are made to the driver. Currently, there are no major changes planned. >> ---------------------------------------------- >> >> The driver requires a firmware image, download it and extract the >> -files under /lib/firmware (or wherever your hotplug's firmware.agent >> -will look for firmware files) >> +files under /lib/firmware (or wherever udev will look for firmware files) > > Again, hotplug is correct. Thanks for catching my error. I removed that patch from the series; the remaining commits can be pulled from here: https://github.com/mfwitten/linux.git trivial/misc/1