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On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 09:52:05AM -0500, Abhay_Salunke@Dell.com wrote: > Greg, > > > > 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. 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. As others have already stated, this doesn't really matter. Make it "dell_bios_update", if any device names their firmware that, well, that's their problem... thanks, greg k-h - 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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