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

[Cristian Rodríguez]

El 30/05/14 13:08, Greg KH escribió:
> 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.
> 
> Ok, it turns out there is still one kernel driver that requires this to
> work properly, so we can't delete it just yet :(
> 
> Now, if the people clamoring for us keeping this code would have done
> their homework and figured this out, that would have been wonderful, and
> saved everyone a bunch of time.
> 

Maybe I am not understanding something well. but the driver appears to
require the *kernel* side of this functionality.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/dell_rbu.txt

Because I am pretty sure udev is not in the business of BIOS updates..


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Cristian
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