linux/drivers/base
Takashi Iwai 5a1379e874 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>
2014-07-08 15:24:39 -07:00
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power Merge branch 'pm-sleep' 2014-06-12 13:43:08 +02:00
regmap Merge remote-tracking branch 'regmap/topic/smbus' into regmap-next 2014-06-02 17:07:42 +01:00
attribute_container.c drivers/base: delete non-required instances of include <linux/init.h> 2014-02-14 14:31:37 -08:00
base.h driver core: Move driver_data back to struct device 2014-05-27 12:37:18 -07:00
bus.c Merge branch 'master' into for-next 2014-02-20 14:54:28 +01:00
class.c sysfs: make attr namespace interface less convoluted 2013-09-26 14:50:01 -07:00
component.c component: fix bug with legacy API 2014-07-04 18:05:05 +01:00
container.c ACPI / hotplug / driver core: Handle containers in a special way 2013-12-29 15:25:48 +01:00
core.c sysfs, driver-core: remove unused {sysfs|device}_schedule_callback_owner() 2014-04-16 11:56:33 -07:00
cpu.c x86: align x86 arch with generic CPU modalias handling 2014-02-18 12:45:38 -08:00
dd.c driver core: Inline dev_set/get_drvdata 2014-05-27 13:46:59 -07:00
devres.c devres: Add devm_get_free_pages API 2014-05-24 02:19:25 +09:00
devtmpfs.c devtmpfs: Calling delete_path() only when necessary 2013-12-19 10:10:32 -08:00
dma-coherent.c DMA-API: Change dma_declare_coherent_memory() CPU address to phys_addr_t 2014-05-20 16:55:23 -06:00
dma-contiguous.c DMA, CMA: fix possible memory leak 2014-06-23 16:47:44 -07:00
dma-mapping.c DMA-API: Change dma_declare_coherent_memory() CPU address to phys_addr_t 2014-05-20 16:55:23 -06:00
driver.c driver core: add #include <linux/sysfs.h> to core files. 2013-08-27 10:24:15 -07:00
firmware_class.c firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader 2014-07-08 15:24:39 -07:00
firmware.c
hypervisor.c
init.c ACPI / hotplug / driver core: Handle containers in a special way 2013-12-29 15:25:48 +01:00
isa.c
Kconfig firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader 2014-07-08 15:24:39 -07:00
Makefile dma-buf: move to drivers/dma-buf 2014-07-08 10:51:06 -07:00
map.c
memory.c memory-hotplug: update documentation to hide information about SECTIONS and remove end_phys_index 2014-06-04 16:53:58 -07:00
module.c
node.c numa: fix NULL pointer access and memory leak in unregister_one_node() 2014-03-08 22:08:29 -08:00
pinctrl.c drivers: pinctrl sleep and idle states in the core 2013-06-16 11:56:52 +02:00
platform.c of/irq: do irq resolution in platform_get_irq_byname() 2014-05-23 11:40:25 +09:00
soc.c
syscore.c PM / sleep: trace events for suspend/resume 2014-06-07 00:18:07 +02:00
topology.c topology: Fix compilation warning when not in SMP 2014-04-16 14:13:26 -07:00
transport_class.c