Re: [RFC][patch 2.6.12-rc3] dell_rbu: Resubmitting patch for new Dell BIOS update driver

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Wed Jun 29 2005 - 14:26:04 EST


On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:26:40 CDT, Abhay Salunke said:
> This patch adds a new function to firmware_calss.c request_firmware_nowait_nohotplug .
> The dell_rbu driver uses this call to create entries in /sys/class/firmware.
>
> Signed-off-by: Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks
> Abhay
> diff -uprN linux-2.6.11.11.orig/Documentation/dell_rbu.txt linux-2.6.11.11.new/Documentation/dell_rbu.txt

> +This driver enables userspace applications to update the BIOS on Dell servers
> +(starting from servers sold since 1999), desktops and notebooks (starting
> +from those sold in 2005).

I may be blind, but I'm not seeing where this code makes a check - what happens
if I try to run this on my 3-year-old Latitude laptop?

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