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

[Michael Biebl]

2014-05-30 4:32 GMT+02:00 Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com>:
> 2014-05-30 4:26 GMT+02:00 Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>:
>
>> You update systemd but you don't update the kernel?  How does that make
>> any sense?
>
> There might be very valid reasons why you need to stick with the old
> kernel. As said, one example could be that the new one simply doesn't
> boot. Requiring lock-step upgrades makes the system less
> fault-tolerant.
> So where possible this should be avoided.

What I'm trying to say here is: let's rip this code out once all
stable distros out there in the wild ship a kernel with builti-in
firmware loader support, but please not before.
Keeping the userspace firmware loader for a little longer costs us
nothing and simplifies things for downstreams. So let's be nice to
them. I don't see a good reason to rush the removal of the userspace
firmware loader.


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