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

Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbyszek at in.waw.pl
Thu May 29 18:59:39 PDT 2014


On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 06:55:10PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 03:40:52AM +0200, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > 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.
> > I think this patch is a bad idea - it makes things harder for people
> > who, for whatever reason, good or bad, run older kernels. At the same
> > time, our maintenance burden is pretty much zero.
> 
> What kernel version are you thinking still needs this, that would ever
> want to have a new version of systemd on it?
My chromebook with kernel 3.4.

Zbyszek


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