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| author | Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> | 2014-06-04 17:48:15 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-07-09 00:24:39 +0200 |
| commit | 5a1379e8748a5cfa3eb068f812d61bde849ef76c (patch) | |
| tree | efc293b5fb2e124d485eb329a37685a20b14150b /drivers/base/Kconfig | |
| parent | reservation: add suppport for read-only access using rcu (diff) | |
| download | linux-5a1379e8748a5cfa3eb068f812d61bde849ef76c.tar.xz linux-5a1379e8748a5cfa3eb068f812d61bde849ef76c.zip | |
firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader
[The patch was originally proposed by Tom Gundersen, and rewritten
afterwards by me; most of changelogs below borrowed from Tom's
original patch -- tiwai]
Currently (at least) the dell-rbu driver selects FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER,
which means that distros can't really stop loading firmware through
udev without breaking other users (though some have).
Ideally we would remove/disable the udev firmware helper in both the
kernel and in udev, but if we were to disable it in udev and not the
kernel, the result would be (seemingly) hung kernels as no one would
be around to cancel firmware requests.
This patch allows udev firmware loading to be disabled while still
allowing non-udev firmware loading, as done by the dell-rbu driver, to
continue working. This is achieved by only using the fallback
mechanism when the uevent is suppressed.
The patch renames the user-selectable Kconfig from FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
to FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK, and the former is reverse-selected
by the latter or the drivers that need userhelper like dell-rbu.
Also, the "default y" is removed together with this change, since it's
been deprecated in udev upstream, thus rather better to disable it
nowadays.
Tested with
FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n
LATTICE_ECP3_CONFIG=y
DELL_RBU=y
and udev without the firmware loading support, but I don't have the
hardware to test the lattice/dell drivers, so additional testing would
be appreciated.
Reviewed-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com>
Cc: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Tested-by: Balaji Singh <B_B_Singh@DELL.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/Kconfig | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig index 00e13ce5cbbd..88500fed3c7a 100644 --- a/drivers/base/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig @@ -149,15 +149,21 @@ config EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR some other directory containing the firmware files. config FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER + bool + +config FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK bool "Fallback user-helper invocation for firmware loading" depends on FW_LOADER - default y + select FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER help This option enables / disables the invocation of user-helper (e.g. udev) for loading firmware files as a fallback after the direct file loading in kernel fails. The user-mode helper is no longer required unless you have a special firmware file that - resides in a non-standard path. + resides in a non-standard path. Moreover, the udev support has + been deprecated upstream. + + If you are unsure about this, say N here. config DEBUG_DRIVER bool "Driver Core verbose debug messages" |