[systemd-devel] [PATCH] udev: Make builtin firmware to find in subdirectories

[Kay Sievers]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:23:53PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> > In fact, we should really just delete the firmware logic from udev
>> > entirely now that the kernel doesn't even call it anymore, right?
>>
>> This fimware logic is not compiled by default, but for people with old
>> kernels it can be enabled with a configure switch. Maybe rip it out
>> next time we bump the kernel version requirement?
>
> Sounds good to me, given the upcoming cgroup changes, perhaps that would
> be the good time to do it?

Yeah, It will be deleted entirely as soon as any other thing requires
a newer kernel which also has the in-kernel firmware loader. Currently
it is 2.6.39.

Kay