[systemd-devel] [PATCH] Drop the udev firmware loader

[Tom Gundersen]

On 30 May 2014 18:25, "Cristian Rodríguez" <crrodriguez at opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> El 30/05/14 13:08, Greg KH escribió:
> > On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 08:54:22PM -0400, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
> >> As discussed ad-nauseum previously, it is the kernel's task
> >> to load firmware, not udev's.
> >
> > Ok, it turns out there is still one kernel driver that requires this to
> > work properly, so we can't delete it just yet :(
> >
> > Now, if the people clamoring for us keeping this code would have done
> > their homework and figured this out, that would have been wonderful, and
> > saved everyone a bunch of time.
> >
>
> Maybe I am not understanding something well. but the driver appears to
> require the *kernel* side of this functionality.
>
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/dell_rbu.txt
>
> Because I am pretty sure udev is not in the business of BIOS updates..

True, but until that is fixed on the kernel side the support is still
required on the udev side for things to work in all cases (sorry for not
pointing this out earlier BTW). I think what some distros have done is to
just rip out the Dell bios thing, but I guess that won't fly in the
upstream kernel.

Refactoring this on the kernel side so the dell stuff is not tied to the
regular firmware loader should not be hard from what I can tell... (to be
honest the whole thing looks like a pretty bad abuse of the interface). Any
takers?

Cheers,

Tom
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