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On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 10:36:37AM -0500, Abhay_Salunke@Dell.com wrote: > > > > 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. Well, as they will be the "correct" type of changes, I recommend you do them too :) 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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