Re: [ 004/123] b43legacy: Fix firmware loading when driver is builtinto the kernel

[Ben Hutchings]

On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 12:34 -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 3.7-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> commit 576d28a7c73013717311cfcb514dbcae27c82eeb upstream.
> 
> Recent versions of udev cause synchronous firmware loading from the
> probe routine to fail because the request to user space times out.
[...]

This has since been fixed in udev, and the kernel can also load firmware
directly.  So is this still worth doing?

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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