Re: [PATCH 1/4] firmware: generalize "firmware" as "system data" helpers

From	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 1/4] firmware: generalize "firmware" as "system data" helpers
Date	2015-10-06 11:10 +0200
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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
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Re: [PATCH 1/4] firmware: generalize "firmware" as "system data"  helpers Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2015-10-04 21:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 1/4] firmware: generalize "firmware" as "system data"  helpers "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com> - 2015-10-05 23:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/4] firmware: generalize "firmware" as "system data"  helpers Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2015-10-06 11:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 1/4] firmware: generalize "firmware" as "system data"  helpers] "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com> - 2015-10-06 19:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 1/4] firmware: generalize "firmware" as "system data" helpers Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> - 2015-10-08 22:20 +0200

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