From: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>,
Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>,
Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Kay Sievers <kay@redhat.com>,
Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>,
Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>,
Ivan Kalvachev <ikalvachev@gmail.com>
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()
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 23:18:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPXgP13h+7+WoZ2jVjroLWU495wDPwzbhefX8ziuQMznKBWyLQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121003210532.GA10941@kroah.com>
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> As for the firmware path, maybe we should
> change that to be modified by userspace (much like /sbin/hotplug was) in
> a proc file so that distros can override the location if they need to.
If that's needed, a CONFIG_FIRMWARE_PATH= with the array of locations
would probably be sufficient.
Like udev's defaults here:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/configure.ac#n550
Kay
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-03 21:18 UTC|newest]
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2012-10-02 13:03 ` 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() Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-10-02 16:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-02 21:03 ` Ivan Kalvachev
2012-10-02 22:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-03 22:15 ` Lucas De Marchi
2012-10-11 18:33 ` Shea Levy
2012-10-12 1:55 ` Ming Lei
2012-10-02 22:12 ` Greg KH
2012-10-02 22:23 ` Greg KH
2012-10-02 22:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-03 0:01 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-10-03 0:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-04 14:36 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-10-03 15:13 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-10-03 16:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-03 17:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-03 17:09 ` Al Viro
2012-10-03 17:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-03 19:26 ` Al Viro
2012-10-04 0:57 ` udev breakages - Nix
2012-10-04 10:35 ` Nix
2012-10-03 19:50 ` 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() Greg KH
2012-10-03 20:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-03 21:04 ` Kay Sievers
2012-10-03 21:05 ` Greg KH
2012-10-03 21:18 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2012-10-03 21:45 ` Alan Cox
2012-10-03 21:58 ` Lucas De Marchi
2012-10-03 22:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-03 22:48 ` Andy Walls
2012-10-03 22:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-04 2:39 ` Kay Sievers
2012-10-04 17:29 ` udev breakages - Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-04 17:42 ` Greg KH
2012-10-04 19:17 ` Alan Cox
2012-10-10 3:19 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-10-10 16:08 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-10-11 3:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-04 13:39 ` 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() Josh Boyer
2012-10-04 13:58 ` Greg KH
2012-10-03 22:53 ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-10-03 21:10 ` Andy Walls
2012-10-03 19:48 ` Access files from kernel Kirill A. Shutemov
2012-10-03 20:32 ` Linus Torvalds
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2012-10-04 1:42 ` 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() Linus Torvalds
2012-10-03 14:12 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-10-03 14:36 ` Kay Sievers
2012-10-03 14:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-03 16:57 ` Greg KH
2012-10-03 17:24 ` Kay Sievers
2012-10-03 18:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-03 19:46 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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2012-10-04 14:50 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-10-05 8:03 ` Emmanuel Benisty
2012-10-05 20:17 ` david
2012-10-05 21:43 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
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