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authorKay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>2014-08-30 11:34:20 +0200
committerKay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>2014-08-30 11:34:20 +0200
commitbe2ea723b1d023b3d385d3b791ee4607cbfb20ca (patch)
tree4376a79b88812755c6e922e653f74f77fef0fce7 /README
parentec15977a3cd82eff6c94bb13db72195f7cd512e8 (diff)
udev: remove userspace firmware loading support
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
-rw-r--r--README9
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/README b/README
index d47ea45671..e0edd41f17 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -37,8 +37,7 @@ LICENSE:
- except src/udev/* which is (currently still) GPLv2, GPLv2+
REQUIREMENTS:
- Linux kernel >= 3.0
- Linux kernel >= 3.3 for loop device partition support features with nspawn
+ Linux kernel >= 3.7
Linux kernel >= 3.8 for Smack support
Kernel Config Options:
@@ -53,14 +52,14 @@ REQUIREMENTS:
CONFIG_PROC_FS
CONFIG_FHANDLE (libudev, mount and bind mount handling)
- Udev will fail to work with the legacy layout:
+ udev will fail to work with the legacy sysfs layout:
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=n
Legacy hotplug slows down the system and confuses udev:
CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH=""
- Userspace firmware loading is deprecated, will go away, and
- sometimes causes problems:
+ Userspace firmware loading is not supported and should
+ be disabled in the kernel:
CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n
Some udev rules and virtualization detection relies on it: