Just responding to one thing at the moment: On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 11:22:22PM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > * we should phase out the usermode helper from firmware_class long term
You can "phase out", but you can not delete it as it's a user/kernel api that we have to support for forever, sorry. Also, for some devices / use cases, the usermode helper is the solution (think async loading of firmware when the host wants to do it.) thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
