On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 1:25 AM, Arend van Spriel <ar...@broadcom.com> wrote: > On 08/29/2015 12:38 PM, Ming Lei wrote: > > Does this mean a built-in driver can not get firmware from initramfs or > built in the kernel early. Seems a bit too aggressive.
Yeah, that seems wrong. Loading firmware from initramfs is required for some things, like disk drivers. Of course, depending on how it's done, it's all after the SYSTEM_BOOTING phase, but .. What we *might* do is to not allow it for the user-mode helper fallback, but I think it's more likely that we'll just deprecate the usermode helper fw loader entirely, so adding new error cases for it seems pointless. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/