Re: dell rbu driver and FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER

From: Luis R. Rodriguez
Date: Tue Aug 26 2014 - 13:14:34 EST


On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 07:09:46PM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> When Christian tried removing the udev firmware loader
> it was detected that the Dell rbu driver still required
> use of FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER [0]. This driver needed
> reworking to not be tied to the firmware loader, curious
> if anyone has been working on that. Is the current
> implementation depending on that userspace identifies
> the required path to the file ? Why can't standard
> /lib/firmware/ paths be used ?
>
> [0] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-May/019631.html

Well abhay_salunke@xxxxxxxx bounces. Who at Dell is maintaining this
driver now? Maybe Mario can help finding the right person?

Luis
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