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

[Michael Biebl]

2014-05-30 3:55 GMT+02:00 Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>:
> 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?

Debian Wheezy does ship with 3.2 and we do provide backports of newer
systemd versions of it.
It also simplifies dist-upgrades if one can still boot with the old
kernel in case the new one fails to boot for whatever reason.

So +1 for keeping it.
As Zbiginiew said, the maintenance cost is basically zero.

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