frostwork:
Yes, that ivtv bug sounds like the same issue that I reported in the bcm43xx bug. Basically, udev-096 and newer enable firmware uploading using udev alone. Unfortunately, since hotplug *also* handles firmware requests with firmware.agent, they both try to fill the request and fail. Since udev is slowly replacing hotplug/coldplug functionality, imho, it's better to simply remove the firmware agent from hotplug rather than disabling the udev version by commenting out the handler.
As far as I can tell this issue isn't device specific, it should be a problem with every device that makes a firmware request.
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