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

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Em 26-06-2012 17:40, Greg KH escreveu:
> 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?

That's my opinion too, but Kay seems to think otherwise. On his opinion,
waiting for firmware during module_init() is something that were never
allowed at the device model.

Regards,
Mauro
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