[systemd-devel] udev firmware loading

[Kay Sievers]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:

> Couldn't the kernel simply log (one of these new fance structured log
> messages it now supports) whenever it fails to load a piece of
> firmware?

Yes, drivers could explicitly log fatal failures, ones they cannot
recover from without firmware; a default message for ever unfulfilled
firmware request would not make much sense though.

It would need a MESSSAGE_ID= and a few key/value pairs with the file
name, the driver name and such to send out. The journal could get a
service activation feature by message id ...

Kay