Comment 20 for bug 1398458

Suppose there will be an update of systemd and there is no firmware anymore ... now what will happen then? Upstream of systemd has decided not to go this way.

config FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
        bool "Fallback user-helper invocation for firmware loading"
        depends on FW_LOADER
        default y
        help
          This option enables / disables the invocation of user-helper
          (e.g. udev) for loading firmware files as a fallback after the
          direct file loading in kernel fails. The user-mode helper is
          no longer required unless you have a special firmware file that
          resides in a non-standard path.

Maybe Robert has aa idea why this is depricated. AFAIK such helpers are not required anymore