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Re: [PATCH v6 05/13] firmware_loader: enhance Kconfig documentation over FW_LOADER

From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Date: 2018-05-09 20:55:44
Also in: linux-fsdevel, linux-scsi, linux-wireless, lkml

On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 03:42:33PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 11:12 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez [off-list ref] wrote:
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+         This used to be the default firmware loading facility, and udev used
+         to listen for uvents to load firmware for the kernel. The firmware
+         loading facility functionality in udev has been removed, as such it
+         can no longer be relied upon as a fallback mechanism. Linux no longer
+         relies on or uses a fallback mechanism in userspace. If you need to
+         rely on one refer to the permissively licensed firmwared:
Typo: firmware
Thanks fixed all typos except this one, this one is meant to be firmwared as
that is the name of the project, the url is below.
quoted
+
+         https://github.com/teg/firmwared
  Luis
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