[RFC] fs: add userspace critical mounts event support

Linus Torvalds torvalds at linux-foundation.org
Sat Sep 3 14:41:18 AEST 2016


On Sep 2, 2016 9:20 PM, "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Like what? Some devices do need to have firmware loaded so we know
> their capabilities, so we really can't push the firmware loading into
> "open".

So you
(a) document that
(b) make the driver only build as a module
(c) make sure the module and the firmware go together

End of problem.

Why make up random interfaces for crazy stuff?

     Linus
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