Re: [PATCH] firmware: fix async/manual firmware loading

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 08:07:58AM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> >  It shouldn't be hard to figure out if a patch should be in stable or not...
> 
> Well with the only caveat now that I am suggesting we consider remove
> this logic completely as only 2 drivers were using it explicitly
> (second argument to request_firmware_nowait() set to false), it seems
> they had good reasons for it but ... this has been broken for ages and
> we seem to be happy to compartamentalize the UMH further, its unclear
> why we would want to expand and "fix" that instead of just removing
> crap that never worked. Thoughts?

Why would you want to remove stuff that works and people rely on?  Don't
be foolish, you know we can't do that...

greg k-h