Re: Should commit abb139e75c2 about "kernel loading firmware directly from fs" be backported to stable trees ?

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On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 11:17:14PM +0200, Francis Moreau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using stable kernel 3.4.52 and udev 181.
> 
> During the boot, initrd is trying to load isci driver but it hangs
> during 60 seconds. Then the kernel log says that there was an issue
> when loading the firmware and driver will use the default values. I'm
> not sure if the firmware is actually loaded at the end.
> 
> Anyways after doing some googling I found that my problem is probably
> related by what is described here:
> 
>     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1368617
> 
> If that's the case, I'm wondering how this should be fixed for older
> stable kernels: should Linus' fix be backported ?

Have you tried backporting just that one patch to see if it makes a
difference?  For older kernels, like 3.4, that version of udev should
still work ok, but I can't remember where the problem started showing up
so I could be totally wrong...

thanks,

greg k-h
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