On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 06:28:53AM -0800, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
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> What I recommend is to look into why we disable it by default, I think
I think FW_CACHE is enabled by default, no?
> its sold old obscure reasoning but now suspect it was udev being dumb,
> in line with why we also try to defensively try to ignore duplicate
> udev requests for module requests causing a flood. Refer to commit
> 9b9879fc03275ff ("modules: catch concurrent module loads, treat them as
> idempotent") for details.
Thanks, that helps a lot.
Given that this commit landed in v6.5 I guess there's not really a concern to
force enable FW_CACHE for Nouveau as a fix for commit 176fdcbddfd2
("drm/nouveau/gsp/r535: add support for booting GSP-RM"), which landed in v6.7.
