From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8F1C138873 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:13:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DBBC8E0897; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:13:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qc0-f173.google.com (mail-qc0-f173.google.com [209.85.216.173]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9A4F6E078C for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:13:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qc0-f173.google.com with SMTP id w7so788979qcr.4 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 07:13:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=8yjYndnWflQbsRvSLTQDBI8SB1i3x5JOojds0hjunb0=; b=W5MhGEW0o+LVudAEt3aRo9AfwqNQ+7tJSoJ1tr4niIfJch92FYhxNpeXwOf1vF9Z1m x5Up0fJxrPu3dCsYUPA9+Pgv6jwLH7SWst6OUj2KDVbiRNuu55E4Wn7ywX1ZBNG45I0p gQ2xmgQBoKdORRAxDdgiYk3HuvKxnOKdagmY4v4sFdwUGKb1YoUHTRtWLN8ZJFVXPHYn SXUJJVkP6NKdueH6bNC5HJBJTin9UNVHhUfiQvGKE+3Kv0aLBX3SaHhfCftCJ311nV/D e8sS+JDFhKVCZbaLQHoJiKNmy9qOqbSbgS3IGcxD2Al1oHcteQH0GRL8VyFs38NGiyif 2RvA== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.224.97.72 with SMTP id k8mr6368271qan.25.1414160009506; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 07:13:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.20.56 with HTTP; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 07:13:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20141024124714.319e4ec1@hactar.digimed.co.uk> References: <201410241237.10235.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20141024124714.319e4ec1@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:13:29 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] uevent_helper on kernel 3.16.5-gentoo From: Douglas J Hunley To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: bd993aa0-dfb5-415d-b62a-48a3d2f4a780 X-Archives-Hash: 355ca68d9407c709b3fce9a31bcd7274 On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > It's a legacy setting, introduced so you can turn off this feature. > Presumably it defaults to Y for compatibility but I've been following the > advice and running without it for some time now - on desktops and servers. Do you run a modular kernel or compile everything in? I do the latter, and on 3.17.0 turning this off caused the b43 firmware for my wifi card to not load. I'll give you that 3.17.0 has other issues, but.. -- Douglas J Hunley (doug.hunley@gmail.com) Twitter: @hunleyd Web: about.me/douglas_hunley G+: http://google.com/+DouglasHunley