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

[Greg KH]

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 03:59:39AM +0200, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> 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.

Why can't you update your kernel to a modern release?  And why would you
want to run a new systemd on such an obsolete kernel?

greg k-h