Re: [PATCH RFC 3/4] em28xx: Workaround for new udev versions

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On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 04:34:21PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> New udev-182 seems to be buggy: even when usermode is enabled, it
> insists on needing that probe would defer any firmware requests.
> So, drivers with firmware need to defer probe for the first
> driver's core request, otherwise an useless penalty of 30 seconds
> happens, as udev will refuse to load any firmware.

Shouldn't you fix udev, if it really is a problem here?  Papering over
userspace bugs in the kernel isn't usually a good thing to do, as odds
are, it will hit some other driver sometime, right?

greg k-h
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