Re: udev breakages - was: Re: Need of an ".async_probe()" type ofcallback at driver's core - Was: Re: [PATCH] [media] drxk: change it to userequest_firmware_nowait()

[Jiri Kosina]

On Tue, 2 Oct 2012, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> And see this email from Kay Sievers that shows that it was all known
> about and intentional in the udev camp:
> 
>   http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg185742.html

This seems confusing indeed.

That e-mail referenced above is talking about loading firmware at ifup 
time. While that might work for network device drivers (I am not sure even 
about that), what are the udev maintainers advice for other drivers, where 
there is no analogy to ifup?

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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