On 03/09/2016 11:10, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > I was thinking if we kernel could post > "conditions" (maybe simple stings) that it waits for, and userspace > could unlock these "conditions". One of them might be "firmware > available".
On idea offered by Josh Triplett that seems to overlap with this one is to have something similar to the (deprecated) userhelper with *per-blob* requests and notifications except for one major difference: userspace would not anymore be in charge of *providing* the blob but would instead only *signal* when a given blob becomes available and is either found or found missing. Then the kernel loads the blob _by itself_; unlike the userhelper. No new “critical filesystem” concept and a *per-blob basis*, allowing any variation of blob locations across any number of initramfs and filesystems. Could this one fly?
