Package: udev Version: 204-2 Severity: normal Loading firmware from userspace has been deprecated in udev [1] and is scheduled to be removed [2]. It is supposed to be replaced by in-kernel firmware loading.
In newer Linux versions, loading the firmware can be done by the kernel itself. We should get the Debian Linux kernel updated to support that. Afaics all that is needed is building with CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n (but this needs verification). We should make sure, the jessie Linux kernel supports that and probably keep the userspace firmware loader for another release cycle, to simplify (partial) upgrades. Regarding self-compiled kernels, we could add a NEWS.Debian and/or add a preinst check (if there is a reliable way to detect if the currently running kernel has that kernel config set) Michael [1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=a3bd8447be4ea2ce230eb8ae0e815c04d85fa15a [2] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/README?id=4a792f4676e5f8fa86aff8aac09c4b6391dee313#n55 -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.10-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages udev depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.50 ii libacl1 2.2.52-1 ii libblkid1 2.20.1-5.5 ii libc6 2.17-92 ii libkmod2 9-3 ii libselinux1 2.1.13-2 ii libudev1 204-2 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian12 ii procps 1:3.3.8-2 ii sysv-rc 2.88dsf-43 ii util-linux 2.20.1-5.5 udev recommends no packages. udev suggests no packages. -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
