On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Andy Walls <awalls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I don't know if you can remove the /sys/.../firmware ABI altogether, because there is at least one, somewhat popular udev replacement that also uses it: mdev >> >> http://git.busybox.net/busybox/plain/docs/mdev.txt > > Heh. That web doc documents /lib/firmware as being the place to be. > > That said, there's clearly enough variation here that I think that for > now I won't take the step to disable the udev part. I'll do the patch > to support "direct filesystem firmware loading" using the udev default > paths, and that hopefully fixes the particular case people see with > media modules. As you probably noticed, we had a tester in the RH bug report success with the commit you included yesterday. Do you think this is something worth including in the stable kernels after it gets some further testing during the merge window? Perhaps not that specific commit as there seems to be some additional changes needed for configurable paths, etc, but a backport of the fleshed out changeset might be wanted. We have a new enough udev in Fedora 17 to hit this issue with 3.5 and 3.6 when we rebase. I'm sure other distributions will be in similar circumstances soon if they aren't already. Udev isn't going to be fixed, so having something working in these cases would be great. josh -- 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
