[PATCH v2 3/3] firmware_class: drop support for FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK

[Mario Limonciello]

The last consumer of this is dell_rbu, and it no longer needs this
due to userspace changes in how updates are passed to the OS.

Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@xxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/base/Kconfig          | 14 --------------
 drivers/base/firmware_class.c |  9 ++-------
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig
index 98504ec..55e6ed1 100644
--- a/drivers/base/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig
@@ -151,20 +151,6 @@ config EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR
 config FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
 	bool
 
-config FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK
-	bool "Fallback user-helper invocation for firmware loading"
-	depends on FW_LOADER
-	select FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
-	help
-	  This option enables / disables the invocation of user-helper
-	  (e.g. udev) for loading firmware files as a fallback after the
-	  direct file loading in kernel fails.  The user-mode helper is
-	  no longer required unless you have a special firmware file that
-	  resides in a non-standard path. Moreover, the udev support has
-	  been deprecated upstream.
-
-	  If you are unsure about this, say N here.
-
 config WANT_DEV_COREDUMP
 	bool
 	help
diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
index 773fc30..3da4f31 100644
--- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
@@ -106,11 +106,6 @@ static inline long firmware_loading_timeout(void)
 #else
 #define FW_OPT_USERHELPER	0
 #endif
-#ifdef CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK
-#define FW_OPT_FALLBACK		FW_OPT_USERHELPER
-#else
-#define FW_OPT_FALLBACK		0
-#endif
 #define FW_OPT_NO_WARN	(1U << 3)
 
 struct firmware_cache {
@@ -1185,7 +1180,7 @@ request_firmware(const struct firmware **firmware_p, const char *name,
 	/* Need to pin this module until return */
 	__module_get(THIS_MODULE);
 	ret = _request_firmware(firmware_p, name, device,
-				FW_OPT_UEVENT | FW_OPT_FALLBACK);
+				FW_OPT_UEVENT);
 	module_put(THIS_MODULE);
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -1301,7 +1296,7 @@ request_firmware_nowait(
 	fw_work->device = device;
 	fw_work->context = context;
 	fw_work->cont = cont;
-	fw_work->opt_flags = FW_OPT_NOWAIT | FW_OPT_FALLBACK |
+	fw_work->opt_flags = FW_OPT_NOWAIT |
 		(uevent ? FW_OPT_UEVENT : FW_OPT_USERHELPER);
 
 	if (!try_module_get(module)) {
-- 
2.7.4