Bug 110090

Summary:	Fix for firmware loading under newer udev's
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	lain <lain>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) <gregkh>
Status:	RESOLVED LATER
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description lain 2005-10-21 20:36:59 UTC

It appears that the newer udev's take precedent over Hot/Coldplug when loading
firmware. However, this presents a problem, as the newer udev's have no default
mechanism for loading firmware when a driver is loaded. This situation is
described in this blog post:
http://www.openthought.org/blosxom.cgi/2005/09/07#firmware_and_udev

I had the same exact problem when loading the driver for my Intel 2200BG card
for my laptop. The above solution worked great. Simply doing a revision to
udev-071 should fix this problem, and potentially many other problems with
firmware loading in the future. 

I am personally inexperienced in ebuild hacking, so I'll leave that bit up to
the professionals.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-10-25 14:26:20 UTC

I will be doing this when we move to full udev support of the hotplug system

right now, your firmware helper as part of the hotplug package should
be doing the firmware loading.