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    firmware_loader: enhance Kconfig documentation over FW_LOADER · 02c39930
    Luis R. Rodriguez authored
    If you try to read FW_LOADER today it speaks of old riddles and
    unless you have been following development closely you will lose
    track of what is what. Even the documentation for PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD
    is a bit fuzzy and how it fits into this big picture.
    
    Give the FW_LOADER kconfig documentation some love with more up to
    date developments and recommendations. While at it, wrap the FW_LOADER
    code into its own menu to compartmentalize and make it clearer which
    components really are part of the FW_LOADER. This should also make
    it easier to later move these kconfig entries into the firmware_loader/
    directory later.
    
    This also now recommends using firmwared [0] for folks left needing a
    uevent handler in userspace for the sysfs firmware fallback mechanis
    given udev's uevent firmware mechanism was ripped out a while ago.
    
    [0] https://github.com/teg/firmwaredReviewed-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLuis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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