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Hi Abhay, > > Also, what's wrong with using the existing firmware interface in the > > kernel? > request_firmware requires the $FIRMWARE env to be populated with the > firmware image name or the firmware image name needs to be hardcoded > within the call to request_firmware. the latter one. Don't mess with the $FIRMWARE env, because this comes from the kernel hotplug call. > Since the user is free to change > the BIOS update image at will, it may not be possible if we use > $FIRMWARE also I am not sure if this env variable might be conflicting > to some other driver. I am not quite sure what's the problem here. Tell the kernel what firmware image to request. Something like echo "firmware-filename" > /sys/firmware/dell_rbu/download Regards Marcel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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