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Systemd incompatible with...

Systemd incompatible with...

Posted Oct 4, 2012 15:39 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Systemd incompatible with... by nix
Parent article: Quotes of the week

No, that's a sane requirement. Requesting firmware in module_init() can lead to deadlocks, if userspace can't process the request. It happened to work before because most of time userspace usually just reads firmware from a disk/initramfs.

So it makes sense to do something about it, however definitely not in the way udev developers do it.


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