On 01/09/14 03:37, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On Sunday 31 August 2014 17:13:49 Samuli Suominen wrote: >> Trying to raise awareness: >> >> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=be2ea723b1d023b3d385d >> 3b791ee4607cbfb20ca >> > What are the effects for end-users?
Nothing if they follow the CONFIG_CHECK that tells them to set CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n. And it's it's left to =y or they don't upgrade kernel _at least_ to 3.7, i.e. not paying attention, then... > > Will things just quietly fail hard (e.g. radeon driver -> no firmware -> > screen > corrupted/black)? ...this. > > >> http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-fs/udev/udev-9999.ebuild >> ?r1=1.317&r2=1.318 >> http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-fs/udev/udev-9999.ebuil >> d?r1=1.318&r2=1.319 >> >> I will release a GLEP 42 news item *at the same time* =sys-fs/udev-217 >> is released into ~arch, so nobody >> will get caught off guard >> >> Consider this message a prenotice, now you know it's gone > ... one more win for eudev. Sigh. > They are planning in dropping the userspace loader as well, it's redudant afterall. Most firmware are kernel loadable by >= 3.7 Everything is kernel loadable (3.7 and few later versions had some exceptions for more rare drivers) in latest
