[eudev] Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-9999 (and upcoming 217) no longer has userspace firmware loader (will need Linux 3.7 for firmware's to be loaded)

[Anthony G. Basile]

On 08/31/14 10:13, Samuli Suominen wrote:
> Trying to raise awareness:
>
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=be2ea723b1d023b3d385d3b791ee4607cbfb20ca
>
> http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-fs/udev/udev-9999.ebuild?r1=1.317&r2=1.318
> http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-fs/udev/udev-9999.ebuild?r1=1.318&r2=1.319
>
> I will release a GLEP 42 news item *at the same time* =sys-fs/udev-217
> is released into ~arch, so nobody
> will get caught off guard
>
> Consider this message a prenotice, now you know it's gone
>
> - Samuli
>

Hi guys,

Regarding the direction of eudev wrt to builtin-firmware: we knew this 
was coming.  I'm thinking of following upstream here.  Any comments 
before I nuke src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c?  Chainsaw? 
Alternatively, if people still want this, I'll keep it in master for 
this release, run a git branch to follow upstream closely and then 
switch over on the next release so as to not shock people.  I like 
keeping backwards compat with older setups, but our users can always 
stay with eudev-1.10 =~ system 216.

Samuli thanks.  eudev should also send out a new item.  Shall we biggy 
back on yours or just send out an equivalent with 
|Display-If-Installed|: sys-fs/eudev ???  You're call.

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