Looking through the email threads I found this: Kay Sievers more or less broke udev for a substantial amount of users by prohibiting kernel modules to load firm

Looking through the email threads I found this: Kay Sievers more or less broke udev for a substantial amount of users by prohibiting kernel modules to load firmware in user-space. Sievers, Hartman, et al consider this reasonable as the drivers, which do this, should be fixed. Torvalds, Cox, et al consider this no good reason to break things. So at least Alan Cox seems to support the forking: > Just fix udev, and if you can't fix it someone please just fork the last working one. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure/49758/focus%3D1368822 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infr...