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

[Samuli Suominen]

On 30/05/14 04:55, 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?

We use systemd's udevd on old as Linux 2.6.32.61 succesfully, this patch
would be very harmful
to us (Gentoo)