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

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 07:26:47PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 04:10:48AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> You update systemd but you don't update the kernel?  How does that make
> any sense?
You install the new kernel, but you have to reboot before it is useful
for anything.

Zbyszek