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SubjectRE: [patch 2.6.12-rc3] dell_rbu: Resubmitting patch for new DellBIOS update driver
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marcel Holtmann [mailto:marcel@holtmann.org]
> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 10:00 AM
> To: Salunke, Abhay
> Cc: greg@kroah.com; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; akpm@osdl.org;
Domsch,
> Matt
> Subject: RE: [patch 2.6.12-rc3] dell_rbu: Resubmitting patch for new
> DellBIOS update driver
>
> 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
>
Looks like request_firmware is causing lots of changes in my code. For
now I would just focus on getting the size parameters in normal sysfs
attribute and do request_firmware some time later as a separate patch.

Thanks,
Abhay
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