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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Lucas De Marchi
<lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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