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

[Tom Gundersen]

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
>
> 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?

In case anyone is interested in testing this out with the affected
hardware, that would be awesome:
<http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg1755247.html>.

Cheers,

Tom