[systemd-devel] how to get a device name matching .device to use into a dynamic at .unit ?

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Jun 18 08:17:13 PDT 2013


On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 04:54:51PM +0200, Pablo Saratxaga wrote:
> Kaixo!
> 
> Li Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 06:40:54PM +0200, Lennart Poettering scrijha:
> 
> > If firmware loading is a one-time thing you need to execute when the
> > device is plugged in, and is relatively quick to execute there is no
> > need to involve a systemd service and you can simply run this from a
> > udev rule directly.
> 
> Well, the problem is the loader is a user space program (it seems attemps
> to integrate a loader in the linux kernel have been rejected) that
> uses the "hci0" (or hci1 or watever) interface to upload the firmware.

The kernel now has the firmware loader inside of it, no need to use an
external program at all.  Unless this is an "odd" device that needs
something else?  Any pointers to information about it?

thanks,

greg k-h


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