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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] uevent_helper on kernel 3.16.5-gentoo
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On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> 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..
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