On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> Ok, like this? >> >> This looks good to me. Having udev do firmware loading and tieing it to >> the driver model may have not been such a good idea so many years ago. >> Doing it this way makes more sense. > > Ok, I wish this had been getting more testing in Linux-next or > something, but I suspect that what I'll do is to commit this patch > asap, and then commit another patch that turns off udev firmware > loading entirely for the synchronous firmware loading case. This would break non-udev users with different paths. Namely Android, which uses /system/etc/firmware and /system/vendor/firmware (not sure about them though, I'm not keen on Android camp) So maintaining the fallback or adding a configurable entry to set the firmware paths might be good. Lucas De Marchi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
